Before I start this little rant, I got a formspring account (yeah, talk about jumping on the band wagon…). You can ask stuff, but I won’t promise actually answering.
Ok~, so when I was still in high school or maybe the beginning of university a friend said something to me that I remember quite frequently lately:
Said friend was over and saw a music magazine on my table and said: So you are one of those now? I didn’t ask her to elaborate, but I felt a little offended. When she said that, it sounded like she wanted to imply that I woke up that morning and just decided that music was going to be my “thing”, like she felt it was pretentious of me to have that magazine.
The reason I remembered was, that I met her on the train last week. A year or two ago she moved away because of work and never gave me her new contact info, which to me looked like she didn’t care for me being in her new life. So meeting her was a complete coincidance. She could have easily contacted me, since I still live in the same place and my phone numbers are still the same, but she didn’t, so her choice.
However meeting and talking to her after a long time gave me the distance to name something that always bothered me about her. Whenever she was telling me something, like what happened on her holiday or with her family, or anything that happened without me present really, it kinda felt like she was lying.
I know she wasn’t completely lying, but definitely dramatizing. How every little trouble in her family always sounded like a mafia feud or how guys asked her to marry her… it never really felt like the truth.
I asked her for her phone number because it seemed like the polite thing to do, seeing how we used to be good friends, but to be honest I don’t actually plan on calling or messaging her.
I’m just really over trying to find or keep friends. To be honest I mostly didn’t like the people who were my friends that much. Having friends always ends up with me having to compromise or being less of me on account of someone else, and I’m done with that. Have been for a few years actually.
There is this line in a Nada Surf song: “They say if you’re not lonely alone, boy there is something wrong.” It was pretty freeing when I decided at about 17 that nothing was wrong about it.
And that was a new episode of the inner workings of Nicola! Ha, whatever I’ll go to bed!