This was a rant I had typed on Facebook in response to a third-party application that allows the user—once he or she downloads it—to find out who visits his/her page each day. Wow, what happened to privacy?
Naturally, I was unhappy about all this and even more unhappy to find out this nonsense is popular among those in high school or college but who have the mental capacity of kids in a day-care center.
Time to tell you why I’m mad.
No, there is nothing here for you to download.
While I was terminating friendships with some people, I wondered when we decide to end friendships.
Naturally, some friendships deteriorate over time. It makes sense, though—you defer maintenance on something, that something will fall apart, resulting in potentially disastrous consequences. That decision to put off checking your brakes is the difference between you and your friends waking up the next day and you and your friends going face first into some car with “KAGAMIKU” on the license plate.
Or, if you are too squeamish to think of something so morbid, think of it as some glue drying up over time. We all know what glue does, so I hope I don’t have to use an example. But over time, the adhesion becomes weaker and weaker until separation happens.
But what compels a person to re-apply that glue so that the bond is restored? Likewise, what compels a person not to do anything and to let the friendship deteriorate even further?
I guess you can take the time to think about your friends. Do they have any value to you? Are you happy associating with them?
Do they embody people of good character, or are they just characters?
You don’t win an award for having over 9000 friends (those awards you might win on Facebook cannot be exchanged for money in real life).
This year had its obstacles but some good things happened and this year might actually end on a high note (for once).
To get you all up to speed, I have finally found a job in late September after being unemployed for more than a year. It was a tough journey for me, having been shot down after so many interviews. But no matter how dire things were, I knew I could not give up and it paid off.
I’ve gotten closer with friends (you know who you are) and I now know who I should keep close. You are foolish to think if the number of friends you have actually improves your reputation amongst your peers.
Despite the positives, there were some negative occurrences sprinkled in between. I know that things happen for a reason and that the ends will justify the means, even if it takes years for that to happen.
As we march on towards 2010, I hope that things in life can continue to improve and that I can continue to mature and grow.
Enjoy your Christmas, even if you don’t celebrate it.
Remember those stories I was writing?
Maybe you don’t, but whatever.
I don’t know what to do with them anymore. It’s a literary hot mess.
:(
AU CONTRAIRE!
No longer will I have to think of that line from “Martin” anymore. I start working on Tuesday.
Time to get those low-key celebrations going…
With regards to good friends, you can always assume when they’ll be there for you. For true friends, they’ll always be there for you, even when you don’t expect it.
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As I lay restless in my bed the other night, it hit me: September 11 is coming this Friday. I couldn’t believe that it will be eight years since all our lives had forever changed.
It’s how I feel right now.
There is so much I want to do and I can’t fathom how I could complete everything.
There is the quest for employment, the quest to become better with Photoshop, the quest to want to be a better artist (haven’t been doing much actually), the quest to be a better overall writer, the quest to improve my two or three other unfinished stories, and the quest to be a better person overall.
I think I think too much. I spend so much time trying to do too much at once that I cannot get anything done.
On the one hand I am keeping myself busy…but how is that I haven’t accomplished anything?
