it’s kinda comforting to me when my friends are a little annoying or longwinded or abrasive or tired and inarticulate, or they don’t do the exact politest thing in every interaction, and stuff, because I know I’m sometimes annoying, or take up a more than my share of conversational space, or forget to ask them questions, etc etc, and… like, I’m always working to be nice to my friends and to get better and better at friend-ing, but it just makes me feel more human about it :}
anyway I love you friends plz know I’m not counting, in fact I feel great affection toward you even (especially) when conversations go less than Perfectly Ideal
I’m not proud to say it but this line from a 60 year old detective novel made me re-think some things about friendship
It’s so sad that students are now relying so heavily on AI for writing essays because they’re missing out on the best part of writing an essay which is when you’re a few paragraphs in and you just reach that flow state where your thought process becomes one with the essay and you’re slamming the keys so hard that you’re on the verge of destroying your laptop. I used to get high off of that shit
let’s convince ourselves that this is okay. let’s rely on technicalities to exonerate ourselves. let’s avoid looking what we’re doing in the eye. let’s live under its shadow, both aware of what this is but unwilling to say it out loud, since that will shatter the careful illusion we’ve built
