Jumping on the Bandwagon

This blog will primarily be for replying to Flep's post, just to prove his impact.

On the note of that blood-pumping chest muscle, I haven't exactly been that lucky in the sense. Social interactions beyond school are now, if ever, melectiously planned out in advance due to the lack of them. It wasn't always like this though.

Back in secondary, I was part of a close-knit group of mates that were great. We hung out at school, we got similar grades so we were parts of the same class, in a sense we were a good gang. We didn't go and do property damage or that shit, we were the decent guys who regularly went to the cinema, round each other's houses and usually played a bit on the xbox/playstation/gamecube. It was fantastic.

Then, we get to college. The close-knit group of mates frays, mainly due to members splitering off (in one case completly without any explanation of why) and finding thier own groups of mates. However, in my case, there was a frickin' annoying rumor going around by the first year that I was of a certain religious orientation that did certain things to boy's genitals (Which i'm most definatly not). For this part, any group I attempted to join I was met with prejudice that was unjustified. This led to a friction between me and my former friends. I went into a period of time where I shunned social interactions and preffered to spend my time playing on my computer i.e. being a nerd.

Nevertheless my grades did not slip, and I was happy to know that it would get better. People in the groups were becoming less prejudiced and all was going well. Then, the impact. One of my former good friends started going out with this girl. They did all the boyfriend/girlfriend stuff and eventually, every member of my previous close-knit group of mates has had or has a girlfriend (in the case of one, 5). I am left without the feeling of knowing what it's like. In a way, I knew that this would happen; me being the last. There just hasn't seemed to be a girl that swings the same way as I do. Meh.

However, things are perking up. I've been assimilated into this new group of mates (who are awsome) and I still have ties into my old mates. One of my confidants that I tell things to is a girl, and we have a mutual agreement. It helps to talk. I think that i'm able to start trusting more; an assent, in my opinion. Social interactions still evade me, but it's getting better. It is.

One of my main helps through my downtime was my brother. The fact that he was like me, but now has a great set of mates, he's going to a top uni, he has a long-standing girlfriend and he's gone to play D&D just goes to show that everything will look up :)

Chin up!

P.S. A long post, but one of the more meaningful i've done I think. A review on American Gods will be up next, so keep tuned!