Ghosting

I just discovered this term recently and i have to admit, i've been guilty of doing this quite a few times. If i'm not feeling something or someone and there's an escape route ( eg. A fight ) i just wouldn't ever bother to make amends. Similarly if we are just drifting apart and i don't think that person is worth the fight, then i won't do anything. Ghosting is such an asshole thing to do, i'm not going to lie. The only thing is, i've never been ghosted. The only times i've ever experienced ghosting was a mutual ghosting. When both parties are sort of ghosting each other, then does that still count? 

I've never been afraid of confrontation. I avoid it at all costs because it's uncomfortable AF but i'm not afraid of doing it when I have to. I don't believe in holding onto shitty friendships or relationships just because you've been friends for ages. That's silly but is ghosting the right way to end things? The whole thing about ghosting is that it's just so easy to do because we don't do anything. The other person is left feeling confused, sad and angry about being ignored meanwhile the ghoster albeit also feeling cruddy about the ghosting that they're doing, is probably having a significantly easier time than the ghostee. I mean, both parties are losing here but i think we all can agree it's easier to be the one who's doing it.

I believe that things deserve an explanation but i also know that people are, for lack of a better word, cowards most of the time. Myself included. I've ghosted people before and i am not proud of it. But at the end of the day, that's life. You ghost, you get ghosted, you hate with all your might and then somewhere down the line you move on with your life. If it was supposed to be, then it would have been. It was never supposed to be, so you got ghosted. As for actually ghosting, i don't really have much of a stance on it. To me, it's of course the right thing to always provide an explanation as to why you are leaving but being right isn't the issue here. We've all known the difference between right and wrong since children. What we didn't know and still don't know, is how to do the right thing.