Have you ever looked at your circle of friends and often wonder that if you met at different times or under other circumstances if you would still be friends? What if it happened a year or five years later, would you be as close? Would the connection and the similarities still be there? Or do we become friends with people during certain times in our lives due to life outcomes, fads, school....
Today I was looking at my facebook and saw my bestfriend since Grade 1, say she was moving back to Vernon. This was a place that she had moved out to with her husband to try find him a good paying job to support her and her baby two years ago. They JUST moved back home, close to both their families because the money there wasn't good enough. They'd only been back maybe 3 months at the most... and are already deciding to go back, despite their families are here, and he makes twice as much money.
I look at her indecisiveness and scoff. Sure she's 21, likely to make random decisions, but when you're hauling around a 2 year old and making your hubby quit job after job just because 'this place' wasn't good enough, just pisses me right off.
I think that we only became friends so many years ago, because we were both the fat kids in our grade. We depended on each other for support and security. Nowadays, we're grown up, living our lives through different periods of it (she's married, got a kid and planning a second, and I'm still living at home with my folks). Whenever we hang out, all she talks about are the same things... ever God damn time. "Billy is so0o0o0o0o0ooo gorgeous and the sex is great... he's so good with my boobs (sorry to scar people, all she talks about half the time is sex stuff)... yeah I miss Vernon, but everybody's here.. and the money.. but we wanna go back... I want to lose weight but I can't find a sitter.. so I'll buy an elliptical and haul that back on the 4 hour drive somehow..."
She whines alot about her weight. And she is, an overweight girl, I feel sorry for her. But I worked my butt off to get back in shape (somewhat), she can try hard too. Buy some dumb bells, do it at home. But no.. she says she does a lot of walking everywhere... Sure, walking is all well and good, but it won't make you lose the 10lbs in a week like you want.
OH and then there's the fact that she wants to drag her family to England somehow and live there for a few years before her kid is in school. She asks me about Permits and Visas, but really.. how are you going to accomplish anything if you're moving back and forth so much, renting this and that to haul everything that you can't save any money towards this? Further more how are you going to take a whole family to just... live in England, who have no ties whatsoever to the country? If you had family there, sure. A job offer? Sure. But they got nothing there.
She frustrates me so much that often times I don't visit her anymore. If I see her on facebook, I go offline. I try be short with messages and wall posts and often don't return phonecalls. I just don't like hanging out with her anymore, it's such a huge difference from who she used to be, as well as me. We're too different people.
Also, there's the added effect of when I borrowed money and forgot to pay her back.. so then when she comes down on my birthday, asks that I pay her back with my birthday money. I've been super pissed about that ever since, and her birthday is coming up... I'm thinking lump of coal.
So this is just another huge tl;dr rant.. if any of you bothered to read any of that, any of you feel like in a similar situation? Are there friends who were different than who they used to be when you met them?
Today I was looking at my facebook and saw my bestfriend since Grade 1, say she was moving back to Vernon. This was a place that she had moved out to with her husband to try find him a good paying job to support her and her baby two years ago. They JUST moved back home, close to both their families because the money there wasn't good enough. They'd only been back maybe 3 months at the most... and are already deciding to go back, despite their families are here, and he makes twice as much money.
I look at her indecisiveness and scoff. Sure she's 21, likely to make random decisions, but when you're hauling around a 2 year old and making your hubby quit job after job just because 'this place' wasn't good enough, just pisses me right off.
I think that we only became friends so many years ago, because we were both the fat kids in our grade. We depended on each other for support and security. Nowadays, we're grown up, living our lives through different periods of it (she's married, got a kid and planning a second, and I'm still living at home with my folks). Whenever we hang out, all she talks about are the same things... ever God damn time. "Billy is so0o0o0o0o0ooo gorgeous and the sex is great... he's so good with my boobs (sorry to scar people, all she talks about half the time is sex stuff)... yeah I miss Vernon, but everybody's here.. and the money.. but we wanna go back... I want to lose weight but I can't find a sitter.. so I'll buy an elliptical and haul that back on the 4 hour drive somehow..."
She whines alot about her weight. And she is, an overweight girl, I feel sorry for her. But I worked my butt off to get back in shape (somewhat), she can try hard too. Buy some dumb bells, do it at home. But no.. she says she does a lot of walking everywhere... Sure, walking is all well and good, but it won't make you lose the 10lbs in a week like you want.
OH and then there's the fact that she wants to drag her family to England somehow and live there for a few years before her kid is in school. She asks me about Permits and Visas, but really.. how are you going to accomplish anything if you're moving back and forth so much, renting this and that to haul everything that you can't save any money towards this? Further more how are you going to take a whole family to just... live in England, who have no ties whatsoever to the country? If you had family there, sure. A job offer? Sure. But they got nothing there.
She frustrates me so much that often times I don't visit her anymore. If I see her on facebook, I go offline. I try be short with messages and wall posts and often don't return phonecalls. I just don't like hanging out with her anymore, it's such a huge difference from who she used to be, as well as me. We're too different people.
Also, there's the added effect of when I borrowed money and forgot to pay her back.. so then when she comes down on my birthday, asks that I pay her back with my birthday money. I've been super pissed about that ever since, and her birthday is coming up... I'm thinking lump of coal.
So this is just another huge tl;dr rant.. if any of you bothered to read any of that, any of you feel like in a similar situation? Are there friends who were different than who they used to be when you met them?