Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.

It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.