I no longer needed to be liked by everyone.

I'm not looking for new acquaintances, it's getting harder and harder for me to get used to it all over again, to explain, to introduce new characters into the plot. My series is already huge, I can barely keep up with the action. I think for a long time before dialing someone's number and asking to meet... Only those who are very beloved, extremely easy to talk to, only those with whom pauses are not burdensome, who do not expect a circus and fireworks from me, who do not ask unnecessary questions and will always understand...

There are more and more people around, and less and less of me. Whom I will remember later from this time, five people, and those, the closest. I am no longer interested in expanding extensively in vain, I want to do it intensively, deeply...