(Just looked over this and realized it's a long read... but read it anyway!)
(I typed this last night but I got cut off and had to go to bed, so I'll send it now)
I don't have a significant other, so to speak, but I guess you could say the most significant 'others' to me would be people I met at school. Anybody I've met from email/chatting/online stuff has turned out bad in one way or another. Up until recently I didn't know that people like the close friends I have now even existed. The only people I had had the opportunity to know had been, well, low quality. I didn't know what it's like to have someone genuinely care about you. Now I do... And it's a nice feeling! I am in my first year of CEGEP (Quebec French for "College"), just finished my first semester. Everyone always seems to make a big fuss about the "transition" from high school to college - well, I noticed no such thing. My work habits did not improve, my grades did not go down, and things just didn't get all crazy like people make it out to be. The biggest difference however that I did realize, was the people. Incredible! People are amazing in college compared to high school. My high school experience wasn't one that I care to remember.. it just plain sucked. My gripe was mostly with the people, they were all just total crap. Disloyal, dishonest, backstabbing, rude, inconsiderate, immature... ugh. People in college are sweet though!
After a month and a half to two months in college, I began to finally get pretty comfortable with everything/everyone.. It only took me a couple days to get used to the place itself, but getting used to all my classes and classmates and teachers was a different story. I was alone, not really any friends save for a few people talking in classes. But even in the worst case scenario at college I preferred it a million times over high school. Anyway, there was a girl in my english class that I noticed seemed kind of above everyone else.. I don't mean in a conceited way, I mean she just seemed on top of her game, like she knew what she was there for. Participated as much as possible in class, etc. As part of an attempt to take initiative and do better in school, I kind of drifted over there hoping that the good work habits would ooze off onto me. For the first couple weeks that I was sitting around there, it was just working in class and borrowing a book occasionally if I didn't have it. I was actually getting
some work done! But after class or whatever i'd just leave, and we didn't really talk, I didn't know nething about her or her friends.
Anyway, quite obviously more came of it. After a while we started hanging out outside of class, pretty much started by talking outside the class, about assignments or whatever, and like hey wanna hang out with us or whatever... I met her BF, whom surprisingly I got along very well with, and I met her best friend. That pretty much covers the tight group we have (had.. I'll get to that). So we would start hanging out between classes and stuff, usually meeting at a common place or locker. Of course having met everyone through person #1, I tended to hang around with person #1 most and be more talkative around that person. But after a while, that changed, cause I was forced to hang around with her BF or her best friend on some occasions. The first time I hung around w/her best friend, I was like, oh crap... typical untalkative self, new person, what am I gonna do! :Q... But shocking to me I was ok! We talked, and I actually had a strangely good time! Had fun kinda arguing too. .. just fun stuff though! Anyways, after some time I got to know her better and all of them too. After a couple months I kind of just got more loosened up, like being myself more. I'd tickle them spontaneously or not worry about what i'm saying or something, just the nice free feeling of not being self-concious. Actually, now me and the person's best friend (sorry about the way I'm saying all this, it's just to avoid putting names or having to make them up to protect identity) have kind of a tickling-war going on. We're always attacking each other trying to tickle one another and stuff, it's fun.
I find I always get attached to people too fast, and thus get hurt easier than the other person would.. but I think in this case it's ok cause she's such a nice person and she's actually considerate.
Anyways, 6 of us went to see LOTR the day after it came out. It was me, the person, her BF and her best friend + two others that are kinda in the group, but aren't really my friends much, they're just there. I had a great time and really enjoyed the movie, and I think everyone else did as well! On to the worse part though... The next day when we were gonna meet at this mall to hang out or whatever, she (the girl) broke up with her bf. I got there later, thanks to my friend picking me up and being delayed by traffic. I was wondering where the guy was, and that's how I found out, cause I was like "Hey, where's ... ". So the rest of that day was pretty bleh.
For the past month or two though, me and her best friend have been spending the most time together out of the group. Our friendship has developed into one unlike any other I've had before.. but I haven't had many so I dunno. She's a hard person to "get to", like she has few friends and likes to keep it that way, so you don't just pop in and you're magically her friend.. get it? Just the thought that I'm her friend and I mean something to her is warming to me and kind of satisfying, since I kind of earned that. I don't know how to developed into this, but whenever she's tired or whatever, and we're say riding the bus, I let her lean on me for comfort/rest. It's nice... I know it's for HER and it's thoughtful/considerate to her, but I like it too, I get something out of it too, I don't know why. When we all went to see LOTR, I leaned on HER this time.. mwahaha!
OK I know I probably shouldn't have written a freakin long boring piece of crap, but I had to get all that out anyway.
So yeah, people like them are awesome. Even though I know you'll never read this thread, I love you guys (referring to the whole group)!!!
The thing I love about them is they are all mature, yet we can joke around and have fun, it's a really weird ratio/combination I have never seen in anyone else. Unique group and I love em.
Ok, my babbling is over... If you read all that, sorry to take such precious time away from your life.
-RSI
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