Ok, this is the first post of me on this blog like shit, i don't know what i'm gonna use this for and if i will be able to remember i have one. I doubt anyone will ever read this, for those who do, let me shortly introduce myself: I am a sarcastic insomniac with increasing paranoia who has too much fantasy and has a weird and twisted love for shovels/rakes/world domination and on a somewhat more normal level-->history/politics. I'm also a big alcohol lover, alcohol for me is one of the things that actually keeps me going.
Other trivial things: i'm a marxist-trotskyist with anarchic leanings, i am a fan of metal and punk and that's about all worthless junk i can get myself to tell.
onto my first rambling now!
this week i hit a wall head on, unfortinatly not a real one but a mental one. but to explain this i'm first going to ramble out my theory on friendship(well i guess some smarter guy then me already claimed it years ago, but fuck that anyway) for people to become friends, certain factors have to exist, like living next door to eachother, going to the same school/in the same class, listening to the same music, etc etc etc once a friendship is struck, it is thus based on those factors for a big part. The more of these factors you have the bigger the potential of the friendship, for even if some factors fall away(you graduate, you start to listen to other music, you move to another city,...) there are still others to keep the structure up and thus keep the friendship from falling in decay(exceptions ofcourse exists; but i'm speaking generally here). if a friendship however is only build on a small amount of factors chances of it collapsing faster are obviously more likely. another importance is the social group or clique one belings to. for example, you can belong to your class group, but also be part of the punk/metal/... group, your sport group, etc etc. now if friends have a certain group in common, it strengthens the friendship, for you see eachother more, you have mutual experiences etc. if however a friendship exist between people who have no group in common, the weight to keep the friendship going is heavier. Both people will have other groups of friends who come from the same social group they are in, and then the person(s) who are not in those groups. what you'll get is some sort of alienation, the only way such a friendship can hold is if both persons make time for it, and there lies the problem. Most of the time they spend time with their "real friends" (i call them that way for lack of a better term atm, i am meaning those friends who are in the same groups) and spending time with the "other one" seems like a task. Most of the time 1 or both parties just let it drift away and they'll get estranged from eachother to eventually the point where you can't really say they're friends anymore.
this explained, recently my theory was/is put to the test in my own life. I myself am more of a drifter, i never really trully belonged to a certain social group, my friends were from all sorts of different groups, most of them however were/are tied in with school/ university and music. now after high school a first factor fell away for manny of my friends, and for a very good friend of mine that meant the only real link we had was gone. In the beginning there was no problem, you're still in the old patern a bit and you still see eachother regulary, but slowly decay struck, firstly with those i was less close with. Now it has struck on a friendship wich i saw as one of the best ones i had. I had fooled myself that this was the exception that made the rule, that eventhough no social group or real factor bound us, our friendship would easily be kept "alive" so to speak. That didn't quite happen, disillusioned with what apparently was a misunderstanding i turned away a bit for i felt betrayed and obviously my fuckin pride and stuborness were involved aswell. After clearing that all up, things were back to normal, until recently. The last weeks that have past something changed. You see eachother less often, and less often, you talk to eachother less often over the internet etc etc. Now this could all be explained by a number of things, but looking at it now, i can rule out many of those things. New friends are made, old ones get dropped that is the circle of friendship(lion king rip off ftw!!!). A circle that is oh so painfull if one of the parties is not ready to let it drop. It first manifests in little things, you talk less and stuff, then it goes on to seeing eachother less often, to not taking initiative anymore to see/hear from the other to eventually the proces of estranging is complete. i don't know what phase the friendship i'm talking about is in, certainly past the first 1 and probably somewhere in the 2nd one. Now this has become a mental weight for me that gets heavier to carry, i get the feeling that i'm the so called fifth wheel on the car" only used when one of the other wheels is out. Ofcourse that's just a feeling i have, i am a man and thus not capable of trully grasping what the hell is really happening on emotional things. The first time i felt this way i remember thinking i was overreacting, but the last days have made me rethink that initial conclusion. All i want is to spend time with my friends if i can, it's then quite hard to see that someone who i consider to be one of the best friends i got i see or hear the least of all even if i try to... my exams are comming up now so i'll have almost no time to see most of my friends for a month or so, this semi-soltitude will probably fasten the decay with that one friendship, i wish it didn't but as with most things in my life, the worst case scenario will be the one that happens.
On a semi-related note, due to my increasing insomnia wich has plagued me for about 2 years now i am becomming increasingly more paranoid, and i already had a high paranoia level. Perhaps i'm just searching way too much behind everything that's happening? In moments of clarity i am somewhat frightened by my own thoughts and how twisted i sometimes interpret things. Then again, i always have had a somewhat "sick" mind(sick in the eyes of what present day society deems normal).
Well i think that's about enough for a first timer, last 2 days i've been listyening alot to "what difference does it make-the smiths", obviously the music rules, but the lyrics also capture a bit how i'm feeling about the things happening in the above told thing.
All men have secrets and here is mine
So let it be known
For we have been through hell and high tide
I think I can rely on you ...
And yet you start to recoil
Heavy words are so lightly thrown
But still I'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you
So, what difference does it make ?
So, what difference does it make ?
It makes none
But now you have gone
And you must be looking very old tonight
The devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole and I lied, and why ?
Because you asked me to !
But now you make me feel so ashamed
Because I've only got two hands
Well, I'm still fond of you, oh-ho-oh
So, what difference does it make ?
Oh, what difference does it make ?
Oh, it makes none
But now you have gone
And your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight
Oh, the devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole, and then I lied
Just because you asked me to
But now you know the truth about me
You won't see me anymore
Well, I'm still fond of you, oh-ho-oh
But no more apologies
No more, no more apologies
Oh, I'm too tired
I'm so sick and tired
And I'm feeling very sick and ill today
But I'm still fond of you, oh-ho-oh
