My Opinion On Friends (Sometimes People in General):
In every placement, you find yourself with a group of friends, everyone is really close, and in the moment its really good shit. But life trends change; at the age of 19 and older you find that your friends develop common characteristics, as if breaking off into categories.
These categories are as follows:
1) they go away to school and join a frat or sorority and convince themselves that their brotherhood or sisterhood is infact their real group of friends and that drowning themselves in alcohol, drugs and whatever their school can grant from donations, with their "brothers" or "sisters" will last them forever. Conversations always reside in stories of the past, vacationing and time off would rather be spent back at school or continuing school culture where they reside and every aspect of life is wrapped in this aggressive lifestyle, like the impulse to wrap everything in bacon. When school is over, the idea of maturing is never met and becoming a bachelor while supporting your sufficed self-loving girlfriend with three small dogs and a purse makes up for no longer being able to shotgun beers with your brothers.
2) they stay home to doom themselves to a life that they burden onto their parents, they smoke the reefer like its a four course meal and when they're not indulging, theyre preparing a bowl to be smoked before working at your local super market as a professional produce bagger.
3) They are committed to an education, an education that is brought on by a hobby, a focus that they stumbled upon when they were in highschool, the career that to most would be convinced should just stay a hobby. They are so committed to this activity that sleep is drowned by coffee and fast paced drugs, leaving their life on permanent standby. The only contact is permited to the person they're fucking. This lifestyle leads them to convince themselves their career choice will land large sums of money, when in reality the time and materials needed bring them back to live in continuous poverty.
4) They are parents before they even reach the legal age of drinking, all luxuries and spare time gone, community college no longer a reach but a dream. They soak up any story they can from those who didn't produce an unwanted spawn.
5)They have the dream job, they didnt work for any of it but instead had their daddy shit out a job offer, sign the toilet paper and got them a job at his office of law. They are commited to this position, its fabrication and making sure people know how hard they didn't work for it by showing off its outcome. Social gathering only involve others that share in the wealth.
6)They are just successful, the ones that have a life goal, a family in mind, the ones that bought "Life for Dumies" and follow it to the t. No longer do they have time for existing friends. Those positions are given to their family and a salary paying job in the middle of the United States.
7) They were raised into a religion and the older they become, the larger a percent fills up their culture. They blindly follow,become consumed with the culture and social aspect that it brings, and agree to whatever is told, the sheep in a flock.
8) They find their significant "other" at the center of their spectrum and the only person that they have time for. Projects and events normally planned, halt and then seize to exist as they relocate their time to this person they've known for less than a year. This person, that is now in their life, becomes so important that they seem to forget who they've known longer, and your friendship vanishes faster than their genitals which normally housed their self respect.
Of course it isn't all pessimism, and of course there are the friends that remain. But eventually they are consumed wholely into a culture based on glutton and your presence becomes time threatening. They develop touches of each subject if not all and grant themselves happiness where it shouldn't be found.
What about me, how can I talk so much shit and convince you all that Im not part of any of those groups? Id like to think its because I avoid all of that completely, I think in moderation and I try and satisfy every instance. But who knows, that sounds very egotistical.
Of course it isn't all pessimism, and of course there are the friends that remain. But eventually they are consumed wholely into a culture based on glutton and your presence becomes time threatening. They develop touches of each subject if not all and grant themselves happiness where it shouldn't be found.
What about me, how can I talk so much shit and convince you all that Im not part of any of those groups? Id like to think its because I avoid all of that completely, I think in moderation and I try and satisfy every instance. But who knows, that sounds very egotistical.
I am the epitome of extroversion ("I am Jack's complete lack of surprise"), and view society from a far, intrigued by psychology in a practical sense. I don't get caught up in the bullshit of partying and religion but still admire it for it's causes and effects. I find this evident simply because life lacks purpose with a simple answer.
-Alex
