This past weekend, my family and I went over to my mom's old English teacher's house to have dinner. We covered a great deal of topics, from jail-time in Commie-occupied Vietnam to social justice activism, and I was really pleased with the present company. The week before it, I went to a screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with some of my closest friends, and before then I went to see Night at the Museum 2 with some of my oldest (and some of my only) guy friends.
It was a great time, to be sure. I felt awesome, and, for a little while, I found myself totally satisfied with my life as it is.
Then I got to thinking that it was a rare moment that I got to feel that way in college.
Mind you, I do have friends in college, but no matter how close to my college friends I am, I can't help but feel something lacking. It's not all of them, either. Just most of them. My roommate's definitely someone I can spend time with and feel perfectly at home, and the kids from MISA are a very comfortable group of people for me to hang out with (although we're always so busy that we rarely have a moment to spend together).
To make this post a little more compact, I’ll just say that too many of my college friends are overwhelmingly negative people. It affected the way I felt and the things that I did and the interests I took up, and I really don’t like it. I suppose the old grin-and-bear-it routine fooled me over anyone else.
Now what do I do?
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There's a ton of pessimistic people out there...but I think you will find the most of them in college. We're all lost, stressed out, and pretty much scared for our futures. For the most part, no one wants to have their hopes up and witness their dreams crashing down...for some I suppose it's easier to just see life through that negative lense so they won't ever have to feel disappointed.
ReplyDeleteBut for people like us, I think it's disappointing in and of itself that people we are close to could feel this way.
They're just scared...I hope, or they're just really not fun people to be around. Kinda of draining right?
I know that when I'm around people who are negative all the time, it really starts to effect me and I'll start thinking that way too.
Gah. I just really wish people could be happy you know? I think as long as you stay positive, and know that maybe they are being a little irrational or ungrateful or whatever other emotion you can contribute to being negative and knowing that's what you don't want to be...
But, it's just sort of a suffocating environment to be around, unless they change and get out of their funk. They'll always bring people down unless nobody puts up with that attitude anymore.
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