Recent ruminations on the ever-changing nature of social relationships.
People's priorities change. It's not necessarily a malicious thing, just a reflection of the changes that go on constantly in everyone's lives. This includes the level and nature of our relationships with others. The way one person connects to another and the degree of importance that connection holds for them is not a constant. It is also not guaranteed that a relationship that slides from the forefront for one person has also done so for the other one. This how social awkwardness occurs. When the second person realizes what has happened, he or she may try to regain the former position by trying to be more like the person currently in it.
This is not a good idea. It doesn't work and makes many people uncomfortable. It also strains the nature of the relationship that has already changed in intensity, making the change even greater.
I don't really like change.
One another note, I'm reading Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. 15 year old kid figures out how to write a genre novel. Good for him. It's better written than many fantasy novels I've read, even if I do know basically what's going to happen with the dragon already.
Onwards and upwards, ladies and gentlemen.
People's priorities change. It's not necessarily a malicious thing, just a reflection of the changes that go on constantly in everyone's lives. This includes the level and nature of our relationships with others. The way one person connects to another and the degree of importance that connection holds for them is not a constant. It is also not guaranteed that a relationship that slides from the forefront for one person has also done so for the other one. This how social awkwardness occurs. When the second person realizes what has happened, he or she may try to regain the former position by trying to be more like the person currently in it.
This is not a good idea. It doesn't work and makes many people uncomfortable. It also strains the nature of the relationship that has already changed in intensity, making the change even greater.
I don't really like change.
One another note, I'm reading Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. 15 year old kid figures out how to write a genre novel. Good for him. It's better written than many fantasy novels I've read, even if I do know basically what's going to happen with the dragon already.
Onwards and upwards, ladies and gentlemen.
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carla:
Sweet! When is that, again?
carla:
That approaches swiftly. Are you nervous? Prepared? Terrified of his relatives?