Executive Decision No 2

Originally Posted: June 17, 2007

Current mood:drained

Someone, perhaps the writer of a movie script, once noted that 'You try to find someone without emotional baggage for so long, only to realize that you have been looking for someone with matching luggage'. I don't remember where I heard this or who said it but this past month has made me realize how accurate it is.

In this case I'm not just referring to dating, but friendships as well. For a long time I have guarded myself (and to be honest still do) from all people, and I only have a limited number of close friends which I get to know very well. As you get to know them, I have realized that we are all so screwed up. For so long I thought that we were the only normal people on the face of this planet, and I'm ashamed to say that I have been wrong for so long. We weren't the normal, we were just a different form of screwed up, but just as screwed up as everyone else. I don't say this to offend any of my friends. On the contrary, I think that's why I have such a strong bond with those I really call my friends.

I wish I was able to organize my thoughts a little more on the subject, but this all hit my last night driving home from a party, and I needed to write it down while it was some-what fresh on my mind.

Basically I love my screwed up friends. Thanks for the craziness. It keeps me 'sane'.

EDIT: I completely forgot to put what my exec. decision was.
I have decided that instead of "not making any new friends" as I noted last night to a couple drunk people who weren't listening to me anyway... I will open the door to other forms of crazy people, less the ones that talk to themselves on the streets. (You have to have some kind of limits)
I will NOT however change my stance that I will now be less nice of a person. Being nice is boring... and I've had enough of it.