I'm currently distancing friends who I reunited with last winter after more than three years of my absence. I was working abroad while they stayed home and worked in one company this whole time. Ironically, I was invited to work here, too. Which also means that I'm in the same building with these people daily.

It wasn't obvious to me that something changed about them at first. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't blinded by the euphoria of coming back and reuniting with my home.…