Sad
I’m sad today. Sad because I feel like I’ve somehow lost most of my friends (or suddenly discovered that most of my friendships are totally one-sided).
Why is it that when I’m happy and fun-loving, people are generally nice to me, but if I display any sign of uneasiness or hurt or sadness, people avoid me like the plague? Why is it that during the times when I really need a friend, all of my friends are gone?
I guess it’s some consolation to know that God is a friend who’s always there for me, but that doesn’t really make me feel any better here in the “real world.”
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother trying to make friends and develop relationships with people. It seems to be a one-way ticket to a world of hurt.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008 under Introspection.
Tags: friends, God, questions, sadness
Comments
Comment from Marty
Time 2008/06/02 at 11:33 am
Make that two!
Comment from Nathan
Time 2008/06/02 at 12:55 pm
Present and accounted for.
Comment from Nathan
Time 2008/06/02 at 10:59 pm
Oh, I just read this (http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001760.cfm) today. It rather speaks to the post…..
Comment from Jed
Time 2008/06/03 at 9:41 am
Thanks for the link, Nathan! That is a very well-written article, and it does tie in with what this post is talking about.
HOWEVER, I think that the true moral of the story has very little to do with “Virtual Reality” and instead has a lot to do with “Hindsight Is Always 20/20.” The author is speaking from a place where he has reached the end of his search!! He finally found the meaningful relationships he was looking for! So it’s extremely easy for him to look back with disdain on the way he behaved during his younger years. He’s now at a place where all of his dreams have come true, so all of the troubles of yesterday seem trivial to him now.
I’m not at that place yet. There’s no guarantee that I will ever find that place. So I think that Mr. Halitzka’s article is sort of counterproductive. It doesn’t help “starving artists” like me to find the answers we seek. It’s basically just one man’s success story, with the (faulty) implied conclusion that all of his problems were in his head, and that everything got better when he started living in “reality.”
Comment from Bethany Wheeler
Time 2008/06/02 at 10:55 am
One friend here!