Oy Vey
Life has been crazy lately. But, when isn’t it? I haven’t been focusing enough on my resolution. I need to start making sure I do one of the bullet points off my list of tasks every week. Aside from that, I am still reaching out to my friends. Now, the problem. My friendships with certain friends have grown now that I show them how much I appreciate them. In turn, by the laws of time and all, my attention to the original “best” has decreased. I have been more spread out and equal, causing the friends who used to have more attention than now to feel rejected. I’m not sure how I’m going to fix this yet. One thing is for sure, i love all these fuller relationships and I can tell who I really want to spend time with and have a worthy friendship with. Plus, I have been able to help a lot more people with their problems, which is sort of a hobby of mine, per se.
Lately, I have had this… thing, for lack of a better word, with a guy. Basically, I’ve been “utterly transformed, etc.” as it has been implicitly referred to by my friends. I have “changed” and I am now a “new person” all because of this guy. I may just sound like a naive teenager, and I possibly am being a naive teenager (wasn’t it Sophocles who proclaimed he was smart because he knew he would never know everything?). Yes, I have changed, but people change. It is not just because of this guy that I have changed. He has influenced me, but life brings experiences and experiences bring changes. So, some of my friends have decided that there is a “new” and “old” me, which could possibly affect our friendship…


Like many high school students today, Annina has a perpetually packed schedule that keeps her from recognizing the fabulousness of her chums. So Annina asked some of those friends what appreciation and gratitude would look like. "Well at first, a lot of them started joking and saying stuff like, ‘How about you take me to Greece?’" she says. "But then they got serious." Annina collected their input and came up with a plan to pick one friend a week to focus her warm fuzzy feelings on and then do one of three things: write a note; extend an invitation to do something with her rather than waiting an invitation; or flat out tell them that she loves them.