Why does my friend avoid me and find it burdensome to reply to me?

We advise you, if you wish to continue your friendship with your friend, to forgive his slip and abandon reproach, and to apologize to him even if he was in the wrong. This is because refraining from reproach is itself a form of reproach. If he asks you for the impossible, silence is the most eloquent answer. As the poet said: "When a friend unjustly shuns me, I show him that his desertion has reasons. And I fear if I reproach him, I would provoke him, so I see refraining from reproach as a form of reproach. And if I am afflicted by an ignorant, self-conceited person who calls the impossible of matters correct, I respond with silence from my part, and sometimes silence regarding an answer is itself an answer."