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English exam tomorrow, and instead of studying, here I am posting yet another chunk of philosophically turgid material. Why though? Why don't I study? Simple. I don't feel like it. ^^
Anyway, one would think I'd have exhausted all possible topics, having spoken on love, life and other such things. Sadly, I am not out of things to say. Big whoop.
Now, this post will be about friends. Not the sitcom, the people. The people you call friends. I'm going to start off with a couple of quotes about friends. Note that I do not lay claim to the invention of any of these quotes. If I do not cite a source, its cuz I've forgotten.
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when we ourselves have trouble standing up."
"After death, a friend would mourn the loss of you, but a true friend would pick up a glass of that wine you used to like so much, make a toast to you and celebrate your life."
"Any stranger could help you up when you fall, but a friend would fall down with you and say something like 'Wow the view is different from down here!'"
"A friend would bail you out of jail. A true friend would be in the cell with you saying 'HAHA WE SCREWED UP!!!'"
There we go. Hope that gives the slow people in class some idea as to what I'm talking about.
Anyway, how do we tell friends from the evil bitchsluts who are out there to make our lives miserable by betraying us when we least expect it? Well, I have no answer to that, as I have never been betrayed by an evil bitchslut. All I can say is, make friends.
Why though? Won't we end up getting hurt if we make too many friends? Answer: Yes. Besides, I didn;t say make a lot of friends. I said make friends. Big difference.
Take me for example. I have few friends, and of those who I AM friends with, they are good friends, people I would seriously consider risking my life for. Why do I need these people? Quite simply because I do. Apart from telling me about homework, they basically enrich my life, and that's doing me a big service, so I try and do to them the same. If any of them ever DO betray me (and I pray to the good LORD above that never happens) what am I going to do? Hang around, mope and act all gothic? Hell no.
If they betray me, I'm not going to do them any harm. If I can help it. Provided they stay away from me during the period of time when what psychologists and theologians call 'righteous rage' breaks loose and I unleash all hell on everyone and everything around me.
*Ahem*
Back to the point. If someone betrays me, I'm (hopefully) going to take it in stride. I'm going to ask them why, and if they really are evil bitchsluts (or evil gayasspricks, depending on gender) then I'm going to forget I ever knew them. Simple as that. Will I still risk my ass saving them from off a cliff? Maybe so. Why? To shame them. BIG TIME.
Anyway, back to friendship.
"If I don't make any friends, I won't get hurt by the sting of betrayal." ----- Ayanami Rei.
Well, Rei-chan, you're right, and at the same time so fugging wrong. "The walls we set up to keep away assholes who are out to get us also keep away the friends meant to help us." ----- Heavily paraphrased quote from some English guy. Point is, If you want your existence to be sad, empty and meaningless, don't make friends. Or become a drunken college guy's 'Last Resort'. Either way, You get what you deserve.
Friends are there to enrich us. To help us learn more about ourselves, and for us to help them learn more about themselves. I make friends not so I have a million and one contacts. I make friends only if I think that person is worth my time and energy that will invariably be taken away through the furtherance of a relationship with that person.
I know some of you will be REAL mature and go 'EWWWWWWWW' at the mention of the word 'relationship'. Here is my response.
Grow.
The fuck.
Up.
Everything is a relationship. Why? Because everything is relative. You and your parents have a parent-child relationship. You and your friends have a relationship. Contrary to popular belief, BGR is not the only type of relationship around. Yes, shocking news I know.
More to the point. Why do we need relationships? Because we are human. One would think. Babies die without human contact. Adults go crazy and turn into hermits. We as kids are no different. We need friends. That's why we should make them. That's why we should be good to them. That's why we should love them.
Thanks for putting up with my rambling. Tata.
~Darryl Foo. Incoherent drap talker.~
save me
from myself
