you fill your life with new memories, new people, new smells, and it happens without you ever realising. one day, months or years from now, you’ll hear his name and he won’t be the first person you think of anymore. it’ll feel weird and maybe even wrong and it might stop you in your tracks but it won’t stay with you for long— the conversation will keep on going and you will too. look, it hurts until it doesn’t. it feels like forever until it’s not.