Have you ever quietly outgrown a friendship? How did you handle it?

I don’t know how to explain this without sounding like a bad person, but… have you ever slowly drifted away from someone who once meant everything to you?

I'm currently in that space where I’m not sure if I’m being distant on purpose or if I’ve just outgrown the friendship without realizing it. There’s no bad blood.

Part of me feels guilty, like I owe them the same version of me I used to be. Another part of me feels like forcing it would be fake.

Sometimes I wonder if they feel it too, or if it’s just me slowly disappearing from something that once meant a lot.

How did you handle it, or did you just let it quietly fade?