stream of unconciousness

sigh, so it ends.  back to school on wednesday.

it’s not as bad as i expected though.  people probably expect me to go into a litany about how much going back to school sucks mossy barnacles, but honestly, i have to say it’s a welcome burden.

this break made me realize that when you have nothing to do, you seem to stick out like a sore thumb.  to your friends, to your family….it also makes you an incredibly easy target for nagging and nit-picking.  (better to just APPEAR to look busy and stressed…you’ll stand out less)

to your friends:  you’re this constant annoyance who asks them to go out and drink in the middle of the workweek, or the dude who always has to have ONE LAST ROUND of beer or ONE LAST STICK OF YOSI before calling it a night.

to your family:  your this useless parasite who doesnt do anything but eat and sleep during the day and go out at night.  it also reminds them of how little you actually matured from your days as a high schooler.

conclusion?  well, i guess you have to have a healthy level of pain in your life in order to be a kosher member of a community.  ergo, having a ’sembreak’ is only fun for everybody, when everybody else is blowing off steam from the ‘previous sem’.  i don’t think there’s such a thing as having the time of your life because your buddy is on holiday…  of course this could be unique to me since i spent the sembreak away from where i go to school…

nah, it’s just growing up.  growing up has made ‘my friends’  no longer automatically synonymous with ‘my classmates’ or ‘my officemates’ or people you see a lot…it’s made friendship more meaningful.  the fact that you still take time out to accept eachother’s invitations and sacrifice sleep to give way to a friend’s longing to extend the gimmick- means that your friendship is just as strong it was when you were all ON THE SAME BOAT.  it’s stood the test of time so to speak.  the only thing that binds you together now is your past and ofcourse your friendship, there’s no pressure at all to make the effort to meet up, BUT STILL you do.  i think that’s just super duper:)

so thanks to all mah people who took the time out to ‘celebrate’ my sembreak with me hehehe  and to those who i wasn’t able to meet up with, summer nanaman!!  and to those who have a time-oasis of their own this sem, i promise to save up on cuts for such events!:)

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