Well, I visited a great friend these last two days. It was very nice to meet Pollen, who is a really great person. We hung out and pretty much wandered around all over the place. I had never seen Redwoods before, so I am thankful to her for showing me some Redwood groves. Also, it was the first time in nearly 6 years that I had been to a beach. I was pretty excited. Thanks Pollen!
Friends can be awesome. They understand you for who you are and your shortcomings. I know that Pollen rates pretty well, because she listened and adviced to a whole slew of my personal issues. I have many such friends who are like that, and many of them are right here on MySpace. Thankfully, I took the time to cultivate a decent level of respect among them by being a friend, too. It really doesn't take much to offer a person a friendship; however, it does require much care and dilegence to keep one strong.
For me, I offer my friendship pretty readily with of course some stipulation. I hate to be manipulated or made a fool, which automatically revokes my friendship forever from that person. I may be slightly goofy, but I am not a doormat nor am I stupid.
Lately, since returning, I think that I have been too free and too fast to offer something as important as friendship to people. I guess that I wanted something that isn't exactly always possible from just the offer of friendship. It used to be a powerful thing, but I don't think so anymore.
I also get a lot of grief about the number of female faces on my MySpace site. Well, most have contacted me...out of respect for the uniform most likely. Others I have contacted, because I wanted to meet new people. Yeah, I guess that I am no better than most other men in that I would rather talk to a woman than a man. Besides, just think of that conversation: "Hey"; "Hey"; "Going?"; "Yeah"; "K"; "Yup." See, now you know why I have more females to males.
Well, in the future I plan on cutting some faces from the page. I like the number of friends, because I like to think that I am popular, but I know better. Mostly everyone that I talk to regularly will stay. You know who you are already. Some won't care or even notice, so their loss not mine.
Take care and may the road rise up to meet you and your contact with stupidity be limited!
