junryouhana ([info]junryouhana) wrote,
@ 2006-04-04 23:23:00
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Friendship
It's at times like this, when I feel like I want to hide from the world, when I wished I didn't live in reality, when I feel so small and insignificant... that I am amazingly thankful to have even the few number of friends that I do.

I don't think I've ever really been a good friend to anyone. I always forget to call, I'm really bad at replying e-mails, I'll not contact you for god knows how many months... and ultimately I lose a lot of friendships this way. And I'm not just talking about friends I've known online, I'm talking about real life flesh and blood people as well.

And I hate this part of me. There's a part that feels really guilty about doing this, and there's a part of me that... it's not that I don't care... it's just that sometimes all I can see is what's right in front of me and so I forget the other 315 degrees of my life and the guilty part of me gets overriden.

I honestly don't know how anyone puts up with me... but amazingly some people do. And to those people I say thank you... thank you for even just acknowledging who I am.

No matter what people may think, I never forget the friends that have been and gone. Even if they may hate me or never want to see or speak to me again, I will still remember them. Because every friend has had a part to play in my life.

I don't even know what I'm writing about now. It even just sounds like I'm pitying myself... when I honestly I am just trying to vent some of my frustration about myself out. I think... I'm just having a mood swing. I just asked an old... I shall now say aquaintance since it's pretty much clear where our relationship stands now... anyway I asked them a simple question on MSN because I'm going to attempt to do the impossible and clear up all lose ends, and they answered fine enough... and then they added one line after that which was enough to make you feel like they'd just dug a whole in the ground, threw you in it along with every disgusting creepy crawly you could think of, covered the whole with mud again and pissed on it and then walked away as if they'd washed their hands of something putride.

Yes... all this I felt through one short sentence.

I am a bad friend. I don't know how I became like this. I used to be 'saffy, the one who always smiled and never had any problems'. Yes people used to ask me how I could smile all the time, because they never saw me sad. Even now, I don't know how I used to do it back then. I guess, I must have tryly been happy at one point in my life.

Again I don't know where I'm going with this, and maybe I should just stop because I'm probably just making myself feel worse.

I think I've just... forgotten... how to relate to people and how to care... argh I'm going to go to bed.



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[info]lola33
2006-04-05 01:05 am UTC (link)
Umm.. if that is a problem... that .. not caring thing.. then... I think I may have a problem. xD;;;

Well, I know what it's like to just let things and people go 'cause they're just not right in your path anymore. It's not a bad thing that you focus on what you're heading at, and if people don't understand that, then screw'em, you don't need people that don't understand and accept you.

I know we rarely talk to each other, and aside from our baka business, we've really never had much to talk about, but... despite that, I know you care about people and life and whatever you're doing because I've seen it. I've seen the entries about what you're doing, what new things you're trying, people you mention from your life. All of that means that you do care, just 'cause you don't go up to everyone and say "OMG I LOVE YOU MAN!", doesn't mean you don't. You said yourself that you remember everyone that has left by the wayside, that is caring... maybe not as much as the drunkards that shout out the above phrase to everyone they see, but.. it is.

So you used to be the smiley, happy, bouncy person... people change. You don't need to look back a few years and go, "why aren't i like that now?" 'cause... life happens, it's not a fault, you've just gotta take it and roll with the punches and all that stuff. If who you are now is someone that isn't constantly smiley and bouncy and takes a while to reply to emails and doesn't really care all that much about people on the sidelines, then.. that's who you are. If people don't accept that, they can crawl in a ditch and die... I'd be more than happy to fly over there and piss on them for not getting that not everyone is a bouncy, social-butterfly and email/phone-whore.

The strangest thing in the whole entry is... how much you sound like ME. Damnit.. aren't we all supposed to be one of a kind?!??!?!?!? *whimper* xppppp

wow.. this is long and rambly, but.. you could probably use a good long rambly, eh? long ramblies are good to get once in a while. really.. or so i've heard since i never get them myself... but yes... long rambly.... AWAY! *posts*

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(Anonymous)
2006-04-05 11:29 am UTC (link)
何言ってんの?

アマミはアマミだよ。どんなことでもあっても、僕たちは何時も友人だよ。ほら!昨日の100分ぐらいの長い電話をもう忘れたの?君は僕にとって大切な友人だと思う。何時も「勉強しなさい!」とか「仕事を見つけなさい!」とか「しっかりしなさい!」と言われて、君のこと「うるさいな~」と思う時もあるけど、全てはいい友人として僕のために言うのアマミはやっぱり最高と思う。

この世界には、1つでも完璧な友人はない。でも、多分、僕の運がいいかもしれない。そんな「完璧みたい」友達を見つけたから...(^^;)

さぁ、このコメントを読むのは君の日本語の練習だ。ガンバレ!

ケイ

Use this to read: http://language.tiu.ac.jp/ << great tool

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[info]maritp
2006-04-05 06:53 pm UTC (link)
I want to reply too!!..
but..
I don't know how to help or what to reply or..

alrighty.. actually..

quess what XD
I had the same problem awhile back..

I don't know actually how it went away. I just started to communicate more and didn't take replying so seriously anymore.
as in I relaxed, calmed down, answered when I really felt I want to answer or when I needed to say something.
To be honest my mobilephone barely rings.. and if it does it is only my mom or dad.. or in rare occasion my sis.. but no one else and I'm totally ok with it.
I mean I can see the friends at Uni also.. and then also here online and..

..

you ever have the feeling of just running away from all of this?
Not wanting to reply but just leave it and run away?
...
it's kinda sad to have this feeling, right?
but if you don't think about "I have to reply, I have to reply" all the time then it doesn't feel so sad anymore and I'm sure they also understand why you don't keep touch. Heck ways apart, so what?
I have in msn over 30 people.. my ex-classmates.. and I haven't spoken with them for a year now.. I just don't feel the need for it and obviously they don't feel the need also.. we have drifted apart, we find new friends, but the old ones still stay even if you don't talk with them anymore.

I mean with me it's like even if I haven't spoken with the persons anymore a loong time now, even if I do see them in the town (In the end I actually have to see them one day again, because Estonia is small, then we smile to eachother say hello ask how it's going and drift apart again.. that's life.. don't try to hold yourself so strongly to the persons who you actually don't have anything to talk much.. It's ok =) and I'm sure they understand too.. well there are couple of exeptions, but who cares XD)

ok.. and now remember what I said to you in the beginning of the post?
That I don't have anything to talk about?
I lied..

gomen

and now I'm going to bed and be ashamed of myself for talking a bit nonsense.. I think I could have taken the above story together with couple of sentences..

right..
anyway

oyasumi!

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(Anonymous)
2006-04-23 07:14 pm UTC (link)
wow. long lengthy and meaningful replies! my turn my turn! XP

how can one ever forget the people who cross our paths? but there's just too many and i guess there's really just a handful whom we can hold close to our hearts. even then, as we grow up, as our course in life changes... these people will inevitable change. and the ones whom will are real true friends, are the ones whom you can don't meet for months and years, and yet still feel close as ever when you finally meet up.

so chin up. you are fine right where you are. and remember, you can NEVER please everyone. ok?

*hugs*

-juliah



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Don't worry
(Anonymous)
2006-05-01 06:06 am UTC (link)
I really don't think that you are a bad friend. I mean you went through all the trouble to get me something so special for my birthday. How many people even think of doing that. It is the little thing that counts. I understand how you feel, since I am pretty the same. I forget to call people and that is really the best thing. But even if you haven't remembered a friend in a time of excitement, even if you do just remember them once in six months, its still ok. Since remembering them is the main part. And people don't accept you for who you are, they really not worth it.
Ok I am getting to philosophical now :P
What I am trying to say is, it is in times like these that you realise who your real friends are. People who put with only the good and leave during the bad are not true friends. Friends celebrate your good and support you during your bad! ^_^

Nishtha ^_^

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