This blog is somewhat spawned by last night's blog. After I went to bed I had dreams about a bunch of memories and people that I haven't thought about in years, it was weird. In fact, I have pretty much had it going through my mind all day. Excuse me while I unload the stream of thoughts below.
I think that we as people are very interesting. I mean when we are born we spend years with our parents and families being taught not to talk to strangers with limited contact until we are old enough to go to school. But once, we are old enough, I guess it is ok to talk to strangers after all, because as far as I can remember, I didn't know any of the kids or my teacher the first day of school and my parents seemed fine with leaving me there.
That begins one of the strangest cycles in interpersonal relationships. We start making friends but we really have no criteria and don't know how to manage them really. I mean I think of all the wonderful people and memories you create throughout school...then think about how life really dictates what happens to those relationships. Now, I know this isn't the case for everyone, this is my case. But, my parents moved me out of the Bay Area my sophomore year and I "lost" most of those friendships. It was tragic for me...as I didn't have that many.
But, I settled into a new area with a clean slate and talked to more strangers and made new and different relationships only to move again.
All through this process, I totally changed and became someone completely different. So all those people that I knew in both those places really no longer know me... and in turn no longer knew them.
Now here I sit years later with tons of memories that really aren't any fun to share with new strangers. I need my old strangers to laugh, cry and relate to my old memories. Does that make sense?...ironically facebook, is currently filling that void. Now for the plot twist...
All of us have changed in so many ways that we all get to be strangers again. Maybe someone who wasn't really ready for me to be a stranger to them before is ready for me to be a stranger to them now. It's really all quite strange don't you think?
Life is too short...if you are religious, we should make friends now and have them forever...if you aren't religious...you should make friends now, because you won't have the opportunity later...if you are indifferent...you should make friends just to argue both sides.
I better go to bed...I am rambling.
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