phases
I hate being left out. It always happens to me, which is why my turnover for "best" friends is so high. If I feel like I'm being left out, I don't bother. I like to think that makes me feel better - I'm not being left out if I don't want to hang out with them anyway. But I do feel left out. I always feel left out. Someone always comes along that's more fun than me or something, and then the stories become "Oh my God, Caitlin, yesterday when me and so-and-so were hanging out, we did this bla bla bla" and I sit there and I listen, and then I back away from those people. Because they have each other and there's no point for me to agonize over it. I make them the phase, so I don't feel like I was their phase.