N2 Lesson # 3,487 - The ones we should (and most oftenly DO)learn to love are generally the one's that were there through it all:
It is often easy to overlook a friend that's always been by your side to offer you a helping hand, a crying shoulder, a couple of bucks, or anything else you may ever need. You figure that because they've always been there, they'll continue to be there. That's not always the case. It's hard to predict that any one person will always be there for you, so learning to especially appreciate the ones that DO stick around is an important first step.
Many people look for love in all the wrong places. They go out expecting to meet somebody new, somebody that will sweep them off their feet in record times. (The expectation is awfully demanding and I'm sure even they, themselves, will find it as nearly an impossible feat.)
Good friends just never seem like the right person to let into your life as anything more than just a friend, even if they have been by your side through it all. You think they can't possibly love you because they've already seen the worst in you, and that's an image you just can't erase from memory.
Maybe though that's just another reason to let them in as something more. They've seen you at your worst and they still have not screamed and run off. They've been there... in my case, offering advice to get you through rough patches with every one of your boyfriends even if they secretly envy them, at your bed side every day in that Lee Memorial hospital even if it was way out of their own way, coming by to wish you luck before your big swine show at the county fair, inspiring you to keep on pursuing your goals even amidst a pressuring society, and respecting those goals even if they don't always completely understand them.
It was about this far into our conversation that Nati started screaming..."THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. ALL. THE. GOOD. GUYS... THE REALLY GOOD GUYS... ARE. THERE. ALL. ALONG! IT'S SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS THAT IT'S SO EASY TO OVERLOOK!"
She pumped her fist each time she emphasized a word, all with my poor, squishy, green octopus, Oswald, in hand.
Somewhere in the middle of her sentences I heard Oswald....
"PFFFUUFFFTTTt!"...(yup. it sounded JUST like that.)
I looked over and green goo and bits of styrofoam balls dripped from Nati's face.
I was driving about 20 mph because I was laughing so hard that I was afraid I'd have an accident if I drove any faster. I pulled over into E's parking lot so I could finish my fit of crying laughter as Nati wiped the thick, slimy, green goo around her face with her jacket sleeve and picked styrofoam pencil-eraser sized balls off the backs of her eyelids.
I honestly thought I might die of laugher as all of this happened.
My sides were killing me, tears were pouring out of my eyes, my chest felt heavy under the pressure of laughing so hard, and my heart felt as if it were beating a hundred times too fast.
Here is what remains of my squishy green friend...
N2 Lesson # 3,488
DO NOT SQUEEZE DOLLAR STORE ...
OCTO-PI? OCTOPUSES? OCTOPUSSIES!?
(If anybody could give me the correct plural form of Octopus I'd greatly appreciate it.)
N2 Lesson # 3,489 (Our final lesson of the day.)- Relying on yourself ensures a job done well.
As good as it feels to have a best friend, a boyfriend, a strong brotherly or sisterly bond, it may also be scary to give any one person so much of your trust. If you're absolutely sure that this person has your back 24/7 then there's no need to tell you that your "BFF" label is insufficient. However, keep it mind that it also feels good to do things for yourself. Sometimes the only real way to ensure a task is completed correctly is to do it yourself... and once it's done you'll feel good about yourself knowing you were able to do it independently.
No comments:
Post a Comment