Hey y'all happy Monday. I hope this note finds you good and well and safe and

happy and all the things. This is a little bit of a different episode today. I

don't even know if I would call it an episode. A couple years ago I was in the

car recording something that just popped up on my mind and today I'm doing the

same thing. So I guess this is a car talk episode and I've been really wanting to

be in conversation with y'all about just random things that I'm walking

through, that I'm experiencing and going through. That isn't, you know,

produced by my producer and that's just kind of random. So something that I've

been wanting to talk more about lately is the outgrowing of friendships and

people and also the grief that comes along with that and it's been interesting

over the past year to see how relationships shift change grow or even

dissolve and recently I went through a friend breakup that was really still

really hard for me to even process and to be the person who initiated the

parting of ways makes me feel really shitty but I'm also very much aware that

sometimes parting ways even when you don't necessarily want to but you know

that you need to can be beneficial for both parties involved and I won't go into

specific detail but what I will say is that all we can do is our part and what I

mean by that is when there is a conflict in friendship when there is a

misunderstanding when there are feelings hurt the only thing we can do is try to

have a conversation try to make amends and hope that we can move forward

listening without reacting and listening to respond mindfully is something

that I've been working on and I've also been working on being open to

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