Friday, August 1, 2008

cro magnum

"friendships in college are sort of like like cro magnum men:
they either evolve or they become extinct.
their success depends on how much energy you put into adapting" (greek).

i am afraid of change. i have a hard time translating friendships from one stage of life into another. i categorize people: high school friends, mission trip friends, church friends, etc.
when those situations are taken away from me its hard to retain the relationships.

have i invested my time into too many surface level friendships? should i just limit myself to a few really good friends? i have a bunch of really great people in my life. and i feel so blessed to know them. so i don't want this post to sound all emo and whiny. i don't even know what im getting at here.

i guess i just want to say that i feel like through the grace of god i have really grown a lot this summer. and i am excited to go back to school in a month. i know i screw up friendships. i know im stubborn. i know i am terrible at keeping in touch. a lot of times i think giving up is easier than working it out. as much as i want to see all sides of a situation, it is hard. i am sorry. i am not even close to perfect.

i have high expectations. i want perfect friendships. but how can that happen when you take two imperfect people and put them together?

and on the topic of evolution, i just found out one of my friends is the new grounds keeper at the giant dinosaur museum things in cabazon. and i think thats awesome. (operating from a creationist standpoint)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's odd sometimes when people write things and you feel as though those words could have come right out of your own mouth. and that's exactly the case with this post...

i've never done well with friendships... or being a good friend.

i think we're gunna be great roommates :o)

TheAlmondTreeGrl said...

well jeepers, i hope we're still friends! i mean i know i suck at keeping in touch too, but golly i miss you. And i dont think i'll ever forget you, and i hope that even if we dont talk a lot we make an effort to see eachother at least once every 2 years or something