About three days into the pandemic, I had the third zoom call in three days with a person I had been seeing before it all went south.

We shall call this person, Human Being Called Faith, because that's the rough literal translation of this person's name.

Human Being Called Faith had been cheerful on day one, during the first video call, cheerful on day two, during the second one, and somehow gloomy on day three.

I asked why, and the answer I got was, "because every day is different."

Which in Human Being Called Faith's case was BS - there was something wrong and it had nothing to do with me but still led to the end of said relationship - but it was also true.

Things in life just fade away. They're naturally left behind. People are also 'organically' left behind.

Pre-pandemic, there were things I'd been doing for work and pleasure on a weekly or monthly basis, but the pandemic changed a lot of things and I sort of walked into it one way, and emerged from it a different way.

I'm also living in a different country now, and while I do miss some of those things (some I still get to do occasionally, some I don't), I came to terms with the fact that those things simply faded away.

They were part of one chapter. And that chapter is closed and there are new things I wasn't doing before.

Some are better, some are worse, some are acceptable alternatives.

It's just the way life works.