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[clarinetkate]

So, last week or so, I read an lj entry by wavinggrain that really made me think, and then I had a big long conversation with jae_w, which made me think even more. It made me want to write (which is incredibly welcomed since I rarely get inspired), and so I wrote this little piece. I make no promises, but:

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[julitabonita]

I loved this because it made me think. Also, you made me keep reading past the first paragraph, which is rare these days. ;) And now I have to go back and research all those entries that made you write this, because I want to know what brought it on. Kaaaate. Write me more stuff. :)

[clarinetkate]

yay, juuuulia! I will, of course, try to write you more stuff. Sadly, I tend to suck. hahah.

I have to talk to you! Are you gonna be at work tmrw? I have two more days at The Job, then I start The New Job!!

[littlerhymes]

But it's the little things that make someone know someone. Justin and Chris talk all the time and know each other less and less.

I love that, right there.

What I'm getting from this - this idea that we assign certain events significance when the stuff of living is the bits in-between - rings really true for me, and how you've put it in the Chris and NSYNC context works great.

[clarinetkate]

Thanks, Ro. It's totally true. Reading my LJ, people might know about the major things that happen to me, but they probably don't know all the little things that my really close friends who see me all the time know. I can't decide if that's knowing less, though, or knowing different, because there are certainly people I see every day who know TONS about me in the little-every-day-way, but know none of the huge things. Hard to say.

[katienyc]

*Finally* catching up on lj and so I just read this. It's so very true. Especially this part:

The problem with being away from the people you love is that they miss being around for the discoveries of toilet paper and then it's too ridiculous to bring up in a half-hour conversation of catching up. It seems like a waste of time. But it's the little things that make someone know someone. Justin and Chris talk all the time and know each other less and less.

It's sometimes so awkward having conversations with people that you haven't talked to in forever, because you feel like you have to have all these big! important! things! to talk about And everything else is just lame and so then you eventually just stop talking because it feels so forced. And, yeah, that sucks. But I guess it's just a fact of life. Or maybe I just have a boring life and if I were an internationally famous popstar, then I would have more interesting things to talk about. ;)