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What you will realize soon

You will soon realize that the version of them you have been speaking to in your mind no longer exists in the real world.
You’ve been holding conversations with memory, projecting hope onto silence, and mistaking the weight of your own longing as evidence that they must feel the same.

But absence has a texture, and theirs is beginning to feel like indifference.

You’ll realize it not all at once, but in glimmers:

When they don’t notice something you always thought they would.

When they laugh differently.

When your name feels like a guest in their mouth.

And then, at last, you’ll understand:
What you were trying to protect was a moment in time, not a person.

You weren’t trying to get them back.
You were trying to get you back.