Said By Brad

It’s currently 2:03am GMT and I find myself unable to sleep, so I’ll let off some steam about something that pisses me off. People. People piss me off. Not a great surprise to anyone who’s spent more than 2 second around me or read anything I’ve ever posted on any forum or blog online. But still, people are all so shit. I think about all the people and friends (I make a big distinction between ‘people I know’ and ‘friends’. Friends are people I’m generally very close to, I don’t like these people who deem anyone they’ve known for 10 minutes a ‘friend’) I have around me now, and don’t get me wrong, my friends are great people.. well they are now. You see that’s the thing, time.

I think back.. lets say a year, and think of the people I was close to then, and think of how many of them I still am close to now, and there are.. 6 I can think of from the top of my head, probably a few more if I wrote down some kind of list, but I’m not that obsessive. And I can think of at least another 5 people who I used to know then whom I’ve had fallings out with since, not all major, but still. I always find it ironic how you can know somebody for such a long time and then for some reason fall out and go from liking them to wishing they’d contract one or more types of cancer and drop down dead.

I guess it doesn’t help that I’m an awfully cynical bastard and I view almost every prospective friend I meet as a falling out waiting to happen or that when in certain moods I’ll jump at the chance to argue with somebody. But the people who know me for who I am don’t seem to mind, most of my closer friends have even become immune to me picking fights with them. They just tend to ignore it completely. Which to anyone with any sense of how psychotic I can be would guess that just spurs me on to even greater heights of raging irritation.

I guess you can categorise falling outs with friends. Some you don’t really care about, some mildly bother you but you always suspected that he/she was a bit of a bastard really, others you really don’t want to happen but seem inevitable, and those people that when you see what they’re really like you wonder why the hell you even went within 25 yards of them in the first place.

I guess it all goes back to how bad most humans are at judging character. I mean look at the number of divorces people are getting nowadays. Most people wouldn’t get into marriage unless you were really head over heels in love with someone. But still, what is it now? Roughly a 3rd of marriages end in divorce? I guess misjudging a friend isn’t as bad as misjudging somebody you’ve committed your entire life to, though. And ditching a friend doesn’t cost you 50% of everything you own. Talking of which, I must remember to get a prenup when (I prefer to be optimistic and not use if) I marry. Can’t take any chances these days.

Now it’s 2:09am and I’m going to try and sleep.

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