Comments | alk: Friendship Material

alk

Friendship Material

Jul 11, 2011 12:35

Sometimes I think the most important thing of being a friend is not tolerating the other's quirks but how much bullshit you're willing to put up with from a person. This is not directly related to anything in particular but it's just a realization I came to this morning. You can have all the quirks in the world but if you're a cool person I really ( Read more... )

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sixteenbynine July 11 2011, 16:51:51 UTC

I have more than a few f'rinstances in this regard ( ... )

rmash1948 July 11 2011, 19:15:23 UTC

I'm of an age where most of my RL friends have either died or fell out of touch due to their own ages and geographical distance. The friends I have now are mostly chat friends. Yet there's still a bit of commonality between physical interaction at, say, a coffee shop or a park, and a chat room. There's the "Oh forget I said that about..." over coffee and the misdirected PMs in a chat room. After a while, one wonders just what, exactly, is driving that person, or persons, to behave the way they do.

"I simply can't STAND the way he, she, they ::fill in the blank::"
"I shudder each time he, she, they come into the room." Then... "Oh Hi! Can we play/talk?"

In room or in real life, it goes on and on and on. I like the people I chat with for the most part. I do my best to keep my opinions of others to myself. However, when it comes to mixing chocolate with charred beefsteak, all bets are off.