fronting
I LOVE YOU, LJ FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just toiling around facebook, and I got sucked into the questioning process. WHO are you now??! What kind of fun have you been having with these other former high school friends all these years without me?! How much are you fronting?! I'd like to write a book called The Facebook Phenomenon, about keeping up with the Jones's via facebook.
Wes says, I didn't like them then, I don't like them now.
It's not that I didn't like people. I was just very separate from many of them in many ways. Now, sure, I'm curious, and it's exciting to reunite with the people I was good friends with at one point and then drifted from without a true parting of ways. But then there are the friends of other former friends with whom I did fight, the broken marriages, the sides to choose even eight years, hundreds of miles away, and worlds away in terms of other life experiences.
What I like is meeting up with those people with whom it feels like nothing has changed and it's perfectly comfortable. That's really cool.
But then there are the people I never separated from, the people with whom I stay in touch nearly every day, even if it's not often in person: you all! The people with whom I chose to make friends and remain friends. And I hope that some of these rekindled friendships remain, but I know not all of them will. I'm not about to pretend I'm someone I'm not, either. I'm happy with my life. Maybe I wish I had a little more success to show for it at this point--I'd be lying if I didn't say that. But I'm very happy and I haven't yet given up on that success.
I was just toiling around facebook, and I got sucked into the questioning process. WHO are you now??! What kind of fun have you been having with these other former high school friends all these years without me?! How much are you fronting?! I'd like to write a book called The Facebook Phenomenon, about keeping up with the Jones's via facebook.
Wes says, I didn't like them then, I don't like them now.
It's not that I didn't like people. I was just very separate from many of them in many ways. Now, sure, I'm curious, and it's exciting to reunite with the people I was good friends with at one point and then drifted from without a true parting of ways. But then there are the friends of other former friends with whom I did fight, the broken marriages, the sides to choose even eight years, hundreds of miles away, and worlds away in terms of other life experiences.
What I like is meeting up with those people with whom it feels like nothing has changed and it's perfectly comfortable. That's really cool.
But then there are the people I never separated from, the people with whom I stay in touch nearly every day, even if it's not often in person: you all! The people with whom I chose to make friends and remain friends. And I hope that some of these rekindled friendships remain, but I know not all of them will. I'm not about to pretend I'm someone I'm not, either. I'm happy with my life. Maybe I wish I had a little more success to show for it at this point--I'd be lying if I didn't say that. But I'm very happy and I haven't yet given up on that success.