Neptizzy Fo' Shizzy

That's Neptune Gomez - Rodriguez.
He's teeny, illegal, and I love him.

Friendship 101

When I was a freshman someone once told me, "Didi, the people you call your friends now probably won't even say hello to you by the time you're a senior." I laughed at what seemed like a idiotic statement, but little did i know it was the truth.

I don't know if people share the same experience, but I imagine they do. I imagine they have, post freshman year, been in a room with a friend-turned-acquaintance-turned-stranger. Its an unusual, yet familiar process. The semester ends, and when classes resume, its as though many of us mapped out what the following semester would be like-- socially that is. We start with a clean slate. We've decided who we do and do not want to say Hi to because.. well, because frankly we just do. Many times its not even a matter of broken friendships. I mean, I don't typically dislike anyone I used to be close to(and i use that term loosely because there are few individuals I've actually gotten close to), I just don't know them anymore. Time passes, a new niche is found, and that is fine. No grudge need be formed.

What I don't understand is the pettiness that has consumed, and ultimately devoured two of my closest friendships. It baffles me the level of immaturity and just the overall magnitude of idiocracy that i have encountered the first month of my senior year. How can college seniors be so fking needy. So childish. So absolutely ridiculous that they force you to question how a friendship could have ever blossomed from such dysfunctional thinking.

I just don't know. Maybe cause it was okay when we were younger to hold silly grudges, that juvenile "I'm not talking to you for a week and then we'll be okay" way of thinking. Not anymore dude. Not anymore.

Maybe I realized to early on that that was pretty much a waste of my time. Maybe my experiences with death helped me realize how short life can be, too short for pettiness. Maybe I'm wrong and well, there's always the possibility that its me and my apathetic ways, but I much rather be this way then to succumb other people's stupidity. Don't know, and there just isn't room for that kind of bullshit.

Stay friendly !
D.