In conclusion, my blog and my grades suffered immensely, but it is now a new week and things will be different this time. It's funny how you can feel so on top of the world and homework one minute and three hours later be completely lost in life. Anyways. Onward:
Your Best Friend, In Great Detail
(I just finished reading this chapter in my business writing textbook about utilizing headings among other things)
To be frank, I don't have just "one" best friend. Often times, as soon as I admit that I have one "best friend," the relationship is never the same. Mostly, it's because I have commitment issues as a result of a "falling out" in elementary school. She suddenly became socially cooler than I had due to recent upgrade to contact lenses. I was subsequently left in the dust. It probably didn't help that I was more or less a social outcast back then, and even today, sometimes it resurfaces. Ha.
Anyways, my commitment issues will definitely make for an interesting dating life in the future, whenever I get around to being serious.
Um. Let's just ignore my creepy smile.
I still have many good friends. I would love to devote an entire post explaining each and every person's value to me, but we would be here all night. I will say this though: every person I've considered a friend has influenced me for the better.
My friends have helped shape who I am today regardless if we are still close today. There is this one quote:
"Best friends isn't about being inseparable it's being separated and nothing changes."
(Not sure how grammatically correct it is, but whatever) This quote I feel, exemplifies many of my friendships. I have friends from all over and sometimes it puzzles me as to how I still connect with some of the busiest people out there (including myself). Just when I think our friendship is hanging by a tenuous thread, I always end up having a lunch with that person or chatting on the phone and things are just the same as before.
I feel very blessed to have met the friends that I have today, for it would be very lonely indeed. All of these people have helped me during those times when I felt completely alone and I am eternally grateful for them.
I've heard people say that you can make friends wherever you go, and although that may be true, I think there is something to be said about long-term friendships.
My dad, for instance, is very good with keeping in contact with people. (Perhaps, it is where I got it...) Every Christmas without fail, his best friend from his college days brings over a package of nuts and a warm visit. My dad is also still close with two friends from days of his boyhood, which I find incredible. I hope that as I get busier I will be able to maintain all these ties that have been so dear to me.
"Sometimes people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our heart and we are never, ever the same."
P.S. Whatever happened to Myspace?
it does take a long time to grow old friends. the best relationships are the longest and as i've gotten older, the ones who stick with you are the best. ;)
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