conquering the world one oxymoron at a time
November 23, 2006 at 3:56 am
· Filed under daily grind
This may go down as the worst Thanksgiving ever if today continues down the course it has these first 3 hours. I have been home for Thanksgiving every single year, never ever missing a year. Last year, I felt like everyone was staying in town. This year, I decided to stay in town, but I feel like everyone is leaving. Going home, going to NYC, going to a friend’s who lives close by. The one person I thought I could count on being around doesn’t want me around because of some stupid wall of pride and arrogance and loneliness.
Remember the anticlimatic Thanksgiving of two years ago? I’m still sincerely and unsarcastically thankful for my parents, who unconditionally love me. Furthermore, I’m thankful that I’m not married to a prick. I’m thankful that Ryan takes time out of his busy Big Law Career Building to write me one-line emails. I’m thankful that I know a man who’s so caring and considerate of my time that he disappears off the face of the planet when he’s stressed out instead of calling me or replying to my emails because that would be oh too bothersome to me. I’m thankful that at least he still cares about me, or at least he tells me he does, and that must obviously be true because he said so.
In the end, I’m still honestly thankful for my friends. Only one-of-a-kind friends would fly “through” Boston on her way home to San Francisco, from Hong Kong, just to see me. Even though the plane flies across the Pacific, and the transfer to Boston is in LA. She’s flying back to San Francisco tomorrow afternoon.
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I’ve been posting on your blog as often as you have lately. I do have a life, mind you. Trust me.
I only wanted to say two things. 1) You’re quite lucky indeed to have a friend who would make that flight for you. Very impressive. I can’t think of anyone who’d do that for me! And 2) what caught my eye in this post is the parallel to my own (right down to complaining about people’s lack of e-mail etiquette). I just posted before reading your blog today, and you cheered me up (misery loves company). I too was thinking of how someone I once cared about can prove so ephemeral in the end. Here’s a Thanksgiving toast to jerks we once thought we could trust.
Katelyn wrote @ November 28th, 2006 at 4:05 am
Don’t even get me started on my train of loser exes who all said they still wanted to be friends, but then treated me like the plague shortly thereafter. It hurts when they say they care, but act like they don’t. Guys are good at saying one thing and doing another.
hey hun - totally late response, but have still been travelling until today :p…just got home from HK yet once again…anyway, just wanted to say i feel so special to be in your post :D…and honestly, i’m really glad to have seen you and would do it again in a heartbeat! the four of us are truly one-of-a-kind (even my friends are like…you still keep in touch with your friends from elementary school??) and always will be!
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