Written by, June 12 -- Akshita Pandey, Moitrayee Das

There is no official mourning period for friendships that quietly disappear. There is no formal recognition of the friend who is gradually becoming a stranger to you, or the individual whose name remains on your favorites list though conversation is a thing of the past between you both.

As a young adult, relationships seldom come to a dramatic close; rather, they simply fade away into missed calls, cancelled plans, fatigue, and the realization that you and this other person are going different ways.

This sort of loss can be hard to articulate since nothing seems to have happened at all. There was no betrayal, no explosion, nothing to show where it ended. But something did change, and...