I’ve come to accept a difficult truth: friendship breakups often cut deeper than romantic ones. The pain of detaching from someone you once considered family—someone who held your secrets, witnessed your growth, and shared your sacred spaces—is a grief that lingers. It’s not just the absence of their presence, but the conscious effort to unlearn the instinct to care, to love them from a distance, and to silence the ache of what once was.

A Cocktail of Confidence, Humility, and Divine Reminder
Rev. Kojo Amo Asare has always sworn by the quote, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”