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There’s a strange paradox in adulthood: you spend half your time longing to meet your friends, and the other half absolutely dreading the effort it takes to actually do it. A simple “let’s catch up soon!” somehow turns into a three-week-long scheduling war involving calendar checks, last-minute cancellations, and a lot of “are we still on for today?” texts.
And when you finally do meet, it’s never as breezy as you imagined. There’s the emotional unpacking, you listen to their job woes, relationship dramas, or that random backache they swear is “serious this time.”
You share your own pile of anxieties, and for a moment, it feels like therapy without the therapy bill. But that listening, that holding of each other’s worlds, is heavy. You go home tired, even though your heart feels strangely full.
Friendship, I think, is one of the few places in life where exhaustion is a kind of blessing. You get drained not because it’s fake, but because it’s real. Because for those few hours, you aren’t multitasking, you aren’t scrolling, you aren’t putting on your “functional human” mask. You’re just… there, absorbing and giving back. And being present takes energy.
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We often confuse tiredness with something bad, but maybe this kind of tiredness is proof that we’ve shown up for each other.
That we’ve carried a little bit of someone else’s load while they carried ours. And yes, we might need a nap afterwards, but isn’t that the sweetest kind of fatigue?
The one that reminds you you’re not alone, that your people still exist, even if meeting them is a logistical nightmare?
So maybe catching up with friends is tiresome. But it’s the kind of tiresome that feels like laughter echoing in your head as you fall asleep. Like remembering their silly hand gestures in the middle of a boring meeting.
Like knowing that even if months pass again, the next catch-up will be waiting, with all its chaos, warmth, and inevitable yawns.
Friendship isn’t effortless. It’s an effort that’s worth it.
Sources: Blogger’s own opinion
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