2 posts tagged “friends”

My fingers are raw from all of the peeling my skin has been going through, which sucks when there's a ton of nerve endings there. I have no idea if it's the dry air or a natural defect but, me no likey.

Now that the random thought is out of the way we can get down to business.

It's become clear to me the shift in a relationship. What was once a friendship is now a 'people who just know each other' situation. This is hard to explain but I'll attempt it no less: A friendship in which you would share intimate, lengthy, details of your life with another suddenly becomes stale and fractured to the point where you downgrade them to text messaged conversations (an empty attempt at mending fences). Something cataclismisc (but not quite traumatizing) happened; the broken relationship is no one's fault but neither wants to fix it either. It is, in fact, a limbo. You don't count these people out so you'll check on them every once in a while to see if they're alive for an opportunity to exploit them. You can stand the sight of them and yet you wouldn't think it necessary on a regular basis. Maybe they're on your Christmas card mailing list, but so is everyone else, and hey, you don't mind pretending you give a damn. You just know they exist and that's about as far as you care to go.

So what do you do about this? Why put up a facade? Because it doesn't take much effort to do so and you never know when they'll come in handy. It's like one of those things you put in a shoebox under your bed you pleasantly stumble on to one day while you're cleaning. It's a "Huh, I almost forgot about this thing . . ." epiphany.

And hey, if you don't need it you know exactly where to put it: in the "just in case" pile.

Insurance policies, people . . . good to have.

There's a reason why she has the title of Best Friend.