@fovlife: You slowly realize that the hardest part of growing up is not watching people leave, it is watching yourself become someone who expects them to, after enough disappointments you stop getting attached the same way, you stop believing promises so easily, and you always leave a small part of your heart uninvested, just in case, from the outside it looks like wisdom, but deep down you know it came from loss, because nothing changes a person more than learning that the people they trusted the most were not always the ones who stayed