Friends Together
Some people go through their lives grabbing new friends at every opportunity. They see friends as numbers on Facebook, or people they can rely on whenever they need to find out something quickly. I have never seen friends like that, and that’s why I have had the same set of friends since I was at uni, when I was a mere 18.
When I tell people this, they sometimes look at me a bit strange and make out that that is weird and I should be making new friends all the time. But my argument is this: how can I have time for my true friends when I am busy making new ones all the time? It just doesn’t make any sense to me. To my mind, a friend is someone who is there for you whenever you need them, not someone who you have to chat on Facebook with five times a day.
Of course, it’s not always easy to meet up with my original friends from the olden-uni-days. They have busy lives and stuff to do. So, to counteract this problem, every year we all meet up at the coast for the weekend. Just me and my friends and no outsiders, no internet access either!
Great.
Henry: he’s a fireman and at uni he was the laziest person in our year.
That’s not to say that my friends haven’t changed – if one thing has happened that has. But it is an organic change, and they’d still be my mates even if they changed completely.
Take Sarah for example; at uni, Sarah was always getting in trouble for being late with everything. Now? She’s a commercial estate agent known for her fastidious approach to closing deals. Unthinkable. And then Henry: he’s a fireman and at uni he was the laziest person in our year. And then Laura, who was a seriously dizzy air-head…she’s now working in the courts with young offenders, in a role which is steeped in responsibility. And it goes on and on…really, if you just bumped into them in the street you wouldn’t ever recognise them from uni. That’s probably a good thing. I hate getting stopped and asked if I am me!
I don’t know, but I think I have stayed relatively the same over the years. Or maybe that’s just me. Maybe everyone changes and I have it wrong. But whatever the case, I’m not bothered; people either like you or don’t like you, and really, there’s not a whole lot you can do to change that.
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