Leo

The friends who have gone quiet are often the ones who knew you when you were making things just to see what would happen, before you learned to edit yourself for rooms that might be watching. There is something about being seen in the middle of trying that changes how two people know each other afterward. You remember the specific way they paid attention then, not just to what you finished but to the shape of your thinking while you were still figuring it out. The silence now might be about how much harder it has become to show up that unguarded, not about the friendship losing its ground.