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Poorna Bell: Choosing to step back doesn’t mean you’re selfish or that you’re giving up
Sometimes I describe getting older as a superpower. For me, it is the ability to let go of things that aren’t working for you, without agonising over the permutations of it. Recently, it has involved handing my resignation in as aThe friendship organiser is the person in any friendship dynamic – whether that’s just with one other person or in a group – who generally steers the ship of where you meet up and when.
The root of this, for me, is lodged firmly in that first painful earthquake of change that rumbles through 20-something friendships. It didn’t happen straight after leaving university, because the majority of my friends stayed in the same city, and we were all feeling the overwhelm of adulting. As such, nights out still continued, as well as big birthday parties and holidaying abroad.
But towards the end of my 20s, as people started to get married and move to different places, there was tangible fear that we would grow apart and lose each other. I remember forcing groups of friends to hang out together – which worked when we were at university and were happy just to socialise with anyone, but didn’t as we got older and more selective about who we spent our time with.
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