Friends

My sincerest apologies to those of you who visited the site yesterday and were devastated to find that there was nothing to feast your hungry eyes on.  I actually had REAL WORK to do and when I got home I found that my computer had turned itself off and refused to return to its normal state of hot-pr0n-delivery-machine.

On the bright side, at least the best post (in my humble opinion) that I’ve written so far was up twice as long so for those of you who missed the awesome idea of A Day of Regression you had the chance to catch up.  Make sure you try it, too.  It would be hilarious to find that all my friends have been playing with LEGOS again or pulling out the old NES from the attic (you better have kept it) for some reminiscent gaming.

Wednesday evening I was lucky enough to have a fun, extremely drawn out hangs session with my friends Bryan, Ishraq and Pita.  We looks at some old photos from high school which was very funny, especially Bryan’s remarks about how Pita used to be HUGE, which he was.  The evening eventually progressed into a fairly deep philosophical conversation ranging from fairly surface level - like the source of Pita’s feud with another friend of ours - to the fairly obscure – like searching for true happiness.  I won’t get into detail, primarily because a lot of the concepts discussed I’m still working on grasping, but I came out feeling slightly more (at the risk of sounding over-dramatic) enlightened than earlier in the day.  This isn’t to say I suddenly became aware of my purpose and direction in life - I still feel very far from finding that - but I have a better idea of which way I should point myself.

This seems to happen quite often when I hang out with this specific group of friends, especially at Ishraq’s house.  Maybe its the atmosphere of his basement or how comfortable we are around each other because of how long we’ve known each other or a combination of both, but it seems that our presence around each other puts us all at ease and able to speak about every little thing that bothers us, frightens us, excites us or confuses us.  They’re truly the brothers I never had.

This is, I suppose, another method of therapy, much like the one in my previous post, except a more direct method because we’re essentially letting out everything we don’t say to everyone else around us.  I’m sure my friends feel the same way that I do because of how many times we say “I should really head home,” but then stay and talk for another couple hours.

For those of you who know you have this kind of friend, hold on to them.  They’re a special gift that comes once in a lifetime and can do wonders for your mental health and emotional balance.  For those who think you don’t, maybe you just haven’t tried talking to the right friend.  Maybe it’ll turn out that this friend understands you like no other and is on the exact same page as you. So strike up a deep conversation with a friend you may not know extremely well, just ask them ”What do you want to do with your life?” or “where do you see yourself 10 years from now?”

Maybe they’ll be the solid ground you’ve been searching for.

I’m blessed to have found mine.

Everyone have a spectacular weekend, I’ll see you Monday.

Stay friendly,

tim!

Tags: A Day of Regression, Bryan Barbara, Friends, Ishraq Ali, Pita Bertuglia, therapy