Sometimes, we meet the most unbelievable crazy friends that we never knew could exist in our life. But sometimes, as time goes by, the path that once started off as innocence and fun has taken a change of road - a different path. A path that we swore to ourselves that we would never take a step across. The road that we vowed we would never walk.

And when this happens, we find ourselves becoming... strangers again.



Stage 1: Meeting

Stage 1 is basically the stage where all friendships begins. A simple 'hi' to an unfamiliar face, not aware that one day, they would become one of the most important people in your life.

Stage 2: The Chase

This is the stage where you 'click' with them to a point where you love their company, you loved every single minute you're around them and basically, they are your number 1 priority. All you wanna do in your spare time is hang out with them. It doesn't matter how boring and simple the plan is, as long as the company is there - you're probably all set.


Stage 3: Honeymoon

This is the time where you fully express your affection to each other and you pretty much want to do everything together. By the end of it all, you probably have bazillion pictures of each other on facebook and heaps of fond memories that will rush through your mind every time you think about each other. But eventually, the 'fire' starts to simmer down.

Stage 4: Comfortable

Being comfortable is not necessary bad, it's when we can truely be ourselves. But, it's what we do with that 'comfort' that makes all the difference. Some use it positively and work on it to grow together while others use it to create distance. That's when we start to take each other for granted or people that's been in our life for so long starts to change. The feelings aren't as 'strong' as before. This could happy over a few weeks, months, or even over a few years of friendship.



Stage 5: Tolerance

Someone that once played such a significant role is now playing a minor role in your life. You start to drift away from them. It's not that you don't realize it, you do - but you don't pay much attention to it or you don't do anything to fix that. It happens so gradually that you don't even notice it until you're on opposite ends of the spectrum. By then, you start to panic and you have no idea what to do.

This is the phase where you basically can't see eye-to-eye with them. Arguing and not understanding each other is one thing but feeling dissatisfied with the relationship is a bigger issue - it's another problem of it's own. At this point, you try to make changes and fix things. Right now, the friendship isn't bad but it isn't great either. And, let me tell you, that's never a good way to describe a relationship.

Stage 6: Downhill

Basically at Stage 6, there is not much time left once you're in this stage. Efforts to try and make things work just isn't worth it anymore because they don't seem to work. Problems continues, cold war starts.. and at times, you don't even know what caused this cold war, you just know that you're in a cold war that never seems to end. You want 'out' but you can't find the exit. Trapped.



Stage 7: Breaking up.

This is where you leave it on good mutual terms. This is when we start a new path, one that leads right back to where we first started. Strangers. Changes will be so drastic and so blunt. Distance will grow. Both will move on, and new friendships with other people will start to form. And even when we both get over the past and try to remain as friends, things will never be the same.

Our lives will continue on in different directions, things that we once shared will become fragment memories. All that would be left will be a box of random stuff from a faded period of time when that stranger was once one of the most important person in your life.



Whatever the reason may be...
The bottom line is that... somebody stops trying.