The saying of the day is: “The hardest thing about fake friends is that they are almost impossible to identify while you are inside the friendship. From the inside, it looks like closeness. It looks like history. It looks like someone who knows you. And so you explain away the red flags — the times they weren’t there, the moments that felt off, the subtle ways they made you feel smaller after spending time with them. You explain it all away because the alternative is accepting that something you invested in wasn’t real. And that is a loss most people are not ready to grieve until they have no other choice.”
28. July 2026