Friends
Do you ever wish you had those friends that have known you your whole life? Those friends that you can't even remember not knowing because it's been that long. It would be neat, to have someone you don't even notice growing up because it just like not noticing yourself growing up. The changes are too gradual. So maybe that's what's really the great part about having those friends. The stability. The changes are far more gradual when you have something changing and moving with you, but staying constant in its presence. When there's a car moving as fast as yours and it's right next to you, you can't tell how fast that other car's going, or how fast you're going in relation to it, even though if you look past it you can see everything around it blurred with speed.
Is that why we have friends? Is that why humans feel the need to socialize so desperately? Everything changes so fast and so frequently. Are friends a way to strap yourself into the rollercoaster car? You change your clothes, the way you fix your hair, your shoes every day. But you try to keep your friends after you've made them. Your teachers change your assignments, due dates, test dates, your grades, and their expectations constantly. You have no control over what other people change or what changes of its own accord, but you can try and control those people that you keep around you. Is that an effort to combat everything that, by its very nature, can not stay the same?
Or are friends just a way to feel like you're not alone? Why are people so afraid of being alone? I know that I am terrified of the concept, but I don't know why.
Maybe Peter Pan had the right idea. Seriously. Living in a tree with your buddies and never growing up. He even went and got a girl. And he met pirates. Genius.
Is that why we have friends? Is that why humans feel the need to socialize so desperately? Everything changes so fast and so frequently. Are friends a way to strap yourself into the rollercoaster car? You change your clothes, the way you fix your hair, your shoes every day. But you try to keep your friends after you've made them. Your teachers change your assignments, due dates, test dates, your grades, and their expectations constantly. You have no control over what other people change or what changes of its own accord, but you can try and control those people that you keep around you. Is that an effort to combat everything that, by its very nature, can not stay the same?
Or are friends just a way to feel like you're not alone? Why are people so afraid of being alone? I know that I am terrified of the concept, but I don't know why.
Maybe Peter Pan had the right idea. Seriously. Living in a tree with your buddies and never growing up. He even went and got a girl. And he met pirates. Genius.