Was waiting for a lecture to start and letting the thoughts roll around in my mind.
Thinking about all the friendships that have and have not endured and thinking about how people are… well, people.

You know, sometimes you get to meet some really cool people in life. Sometimes you don’t and that’s okay, because people come and go and all of us are probably a lot worse than we like to let ourselves believe.

Already since the start of the year I’ve some people I was close with go and I’ve had some people come in. I’ve had people I thought that were going to be good friends just up and shift (which is something I’ll probably talk about at another juncture in time) and thus see the friendship just kind of not so much go as just immediately fizzle out, and such is life.

Yesterday after uni I decided to go for a walk through Centennial Parklands before going for a drink at a pub for a small birthday celebration. The past few weeks I’ve been thinking a fair bit about friendships and similar stuff (so not just in the time mentioned above, though that doesn’t matter right now so I don’t know as to why I’m wasting space and time writing this bracketed part).

Life really is too short to spend time on people who are just going to flip at random and suddenly become cold with no explanation.

You only have so much time in life and you don’t get it back. Each moment is gone. When you give someone your time, you are giving something that you don’t get back. If you genuinely care about the people in your life, then if they are wasting the time you give them, then it is better that you stop as that time could be better used for other things that are going on.

Of course, outside of a few circumstances, you should leave the door open, so to speak. People change and people grow and as such it’s seldom a good idea to completely write someone off.

People who decide that the idea of friendship is one that can just be discarded at a whim, or decide that for some reason they don’t have to work on it or be honest… you have to decide as to whether they’re worth having around. It hurts to cut people out of your life, but it can hurt more to keep them in.

End Rant.