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A Realization

December 20, 2008 1:57 AM

just realized something. I don't know why it's taken me so long to get to this conclusion, but I think it's correct.

Your friends don't think you're perfect. The people that love you most aren't the people who don't think you're flawed. Fuck those people. People who think you're perfect have no fucking idea who you are. The best friends you could ever have are the ones that see your flaws but also see that you are, on the whole, a positive addition to their lives.

This is a huge thing for me to realize, I think, because I sometimes worry that my friends will realize that I'm a huge failure of a human being and lose respect for me. But my friends already know that I'm a huge failure of a human being, and they respect me anyway. This is a comforting thought, in a strange way.

I'm thinking about this because I'm thinking about college. I was lucky enough to have a pretty close group of friends in college. And that group came to be in a completely random way. But, perhaps more astoundingly, I don't think that any one of the people in that group would, if given the opportunity to describe his or her ideal friend, have described any of the other people in the group. And certainly, there were plenty of arguments and confrontations and tension and falling outs. But at the end of the day, these were some of the best friends I've ever had, and I think they'd say the same about me and everyone else.

So, yeah.



6 Comments


Anonymous said:

thats bullshit....i AM the ideal friend. as well as a superhero

December 21, 2008 2:13 PM



Who? said:

Dude. Despite your failures, I still respect you.

hnmahe

December 22, 2008 9:19 PM



Dee said:

actually, i probably would have considered you guys ideal friends, though imperfect people. but no one thought to ask me! *sobs, gets emo all over the place*

December 23, 2008 8:25 AM



Andralyn said:

Kudos to you! I hadn't thuhogt of that!

July 10, 2011 6:53 AM









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