Now Here’s An Ironic Theme . . .

Now Here’s An Ironic Theme . . . – 3/7/04

Did you have a best friend when you were a child? Do you still know him or her?

Yes, I had a best friend as a child. Dolly. I knew her before I can remember. She was always there, even though I never took advantage of that fact until I heard about penpals in sixth grade. I signed up to get a foreign penpal, and then I had the idea that hey, maybe she and I could become penpals. We wrote pathetiocally short letters to one another at first, but that was okay. I didn’t know what to say in a letter back then. I mean, I didn’t write. I had trouble with thank you notes, and I’ve always hated writing them , thanks to my mom’s constant nagging about them. I can’t say that Dolly and I did everything together. You can’t do everything together when you live in two different states. But I always felt we were close. She was the sister I’d never had. I remember in 8th grade, when I was spiraling down in one of the worst madness/depressions I’ve been through, I came home after an especially bad day, and there was a letter from her. It told me some things about what she was doing, asked how I was, commented on a Goosebumps show that we both absolutely loved at the time, and had a black and orange best friendship bracelet enclosed. I wore that thing from that day until a good deal into my senior year.

Ah, the subject of best friends. Probably the source of my current depression. Yeah, we still know one another now. But it’s not the same. I don’t know if what I once said is true — that we were either best friends, or nothing — but I don’t know. I don’t know where we stand. Things are odd, and haven’t been fully sorted/talked out yet.

Maybe soon . . .

–Notes–

I had a best friend since I was in junior high. We did everything together. We dated in High School freshman year but broke it off and became friends, she was 1 of 2 people who I have ever been truly platonic with. She was the one who passed away this past January. Treasure it if you have something special, because sadly, everything comes to end. Hope things look up for you in that area. [Cesar]
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Friendships change as lives change. That is just the way it is. Sometimes it seems unfortunate, but I don’t think that it really is unfortunate. It just is. A number of the people who used to be my really close friends are no longer that. I forsee a few more close friendships fading in the next year. I don’t regret it, really. I have new friends. They don’t replace the old, but they keep me whole. [Peter Piper]