Writer's Block: Friend indeed

[sathor]

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"Potential friends"?

Didn't know there was a fucking screening process. Christ, NO WONDER THIS WORLD IS SO FUCKED UP.

Yeah, honesty and integrity are nice, but people are the way they are for reasons many times outside of their control. Deal with it.

Comments

*facepalm*

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

Didn't know there was a fucking screening process.

Yeah, I also was surprised to hear I had been doing it wrong. In future, I'll have that screening list ready, though.

[acousticdryad.livejournal.com]

There are traits that people have that I'm not interested in dealing with, I suppose that's a form of screening *shrug*.

[chaos5023.livejournal.com]

Didn't know there was a fucking screening process.

Well, that's an interesting thing to say. Do you not make decisions about who you're going to be friends with, and have reasons for those decisions? If not, how do those decisions get made?

[sathor.livejournal.com]

Well slap me silly and call me a taoist.

Sure, I probably wouldn't be "friends" with the complete stranger that tried to start a fight with me for no apparent reason.

I guess what I mean to say is that I believe our screens should be very transparent. And we should be especially careful with how we define people, and be open minded about the nature of people.

But I still feel like the idea of "screening" people is silly =\

[sathor.livejournal.com]

If it's not formal or conscious, then how do we know we do it?

Re: *facepalm*

[sathor.livejournal.com]

I think we could easily replace the above writer's block with:

"Do you surround yourself with yes men or not?"

[sathor.livejournal.com]

I really do love all people, as long as they don't harbor traits that are unbecoming of human beings sharing the planet with other human beings.

This whole idea of screening is mind boggling.

[sathor.livejournal.com]

Although looking at this a second time, you know, I have to admit.

Having grown up in such a small place, I tended to fall into groups that honestly I didn't want to be a part of, but were the only groups that would accept me, and the only people who would as well.

Interestingly enough, even if they are what some would call scum of the earth, they for some reason tend to be very open minded about things, and very accepting, and some of them, even very loving.

[noximist.livejournal.com]

Would you date just anyone? As far as I've been able to tell from what you've written, you're quite selective about the type of person you'd entrust with your heart, as well you (and everyone) should be. Why, then, would you be so much less careful when it comes to friends? Good ones have just as much power to nourish and to wound us as lovers do, at least in my experience...

[sathor.livejournal.com]

You are probably right. But I think eventually I numbed myself to the pain. Just because you don't feel anymore doesn't mean wounds don't scar.

[sathor.livejournal.com]

-sighs-

Yeah. But I mean, I don't screen people by external characteristics. There's nothing you can know, until you get to know them, that should affect your choice.

I do screen I guess, but like I replied to Chaos with, it's not so simple. I have a weird screen with regards to friend specifically, probably because of the kind of people I came across here, and the way they treated me. I still tried to be a part of things, though, because I loathed the idea of not having anyone, friend or otherwise. But it would seem that it's gotten to that point. It was my biggest fear in life, you see.