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Only "Friends"

Feb 09, 2010 13:18

Apparently I'm not the kind of person people actually want to be friends with. At first I play it cool and aloof. Occasionally, someone sees through that to my quirky sense of humour and we're friends for a little while. Then eventually they just spend time with me out of some twisted sense of duty until my usefulness wears away or my annoyingness ( Read more... )

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monkeymindkafka February 10 2010, 20:03:06 UTC
I appreciate the presents you've made for Gawain and I over the years, and the occasional middle-of-the-night grocery shopping has been fun. And let's face it, I did a bad job for about 5 years of undergrad when it came to me holding up my end of present, parties and showing up to events. recently I thought about how awkward it would be for me to get married because I would never know who to invite. Guests would have no clue what to get me...and my wedding party would be...small...

However if this is about what I think it might be about, you might be thinking along the wrong lines. Everyone can be very friendly and deserving of praise, making life far better for their friends. I know that my sarcasm and critical eye tends to make friends dread me as much as they have fun with me - luckily that means my friends know when they want to hang out and when they are just plain tired.

The best way to deal with my own self-criticism, I find, is to wonder, "Okay, so I know this person liked me in the past...so while I was being awesome, what did I do that was so awful that I pissed them off?" Nobody is perfect and you might just be surprised when you think about it.

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