We received a strange envelope in the mail today. Harrisonburg was on the return address. Didn't recognize it, but opened it anyway. It turned out to be a wedding invitation from an old friend from high school. An old friend that I haven't spoken to very much since I left for school. Some of you may know a guy like my friend. He has one of the most amazing, innovative, creative brains of anybody I know, but he didn't take it as far as he could. Perhaps he decided willingly that he didn't want to further his education. Perhaps he didn't have the money. Ok, so he decided not to further his education..doesn't make him a bad person at all. But it's what he decided to do (or not do) with his life that boggles my mind. Alcoholism started to take over to the point of picking fights with his own best friends. That's what I hate to see more than anything. However, he decided to go into the Marines and that apparently has turned him around. From what I understand, he's doing well lately. I think we'll go.
Not to continue on my soap box, but it's interesting to look back and think about all the times my parents fussed at me for "not using all of my potential". Looking back on it, perhaps I wasn't working as hard as I could, but when the time came, I knew where I was going. I knew what I was doing. And, I think, I knew how I was going to do it. What really tears me up is to see a good friend with amazing potential not use it. But it's really not for me to decide, I guess, is it?
And lastly (and on a TOTALLY different topic), I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that Mariah Carey looked like a total TRAMP on Dave Letterman tonight. Boys, back me up here, but she's just gone to the crapper in the last few years. My question is: who is she trying to be?
Posted by Jeff at December 12, 2001 12:29 AM
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It isn't for you to decide, but if you're a good friend, it IS for you to make sure that they really know what they're doing. Of course, you can't force someone to decide something. People have a right not take their medications or drop out of school or quit a perfectly good job to go live under the sea if they want to. But as friends, we must all make sure that the people we love don't fall by the wayside.
At least, this is how I feel about it. I mean, I've seen plenty of people not living up to their potential. Yes, it's extremely frustrating. For the ones you can't help, the best thing you can do is try and live your own life as well as you can. Have fun, do things, learn stuff, see the world. Maybe hope isn't lost and good things can rub off.
This is a tough one Jeff. Beign there to support your bud at his wedding now that he's come around and shaped up is the most friend-like thing you can do.
Posted by: Brian at December 12, 2001 1:47 AM
...and yes, Mariah is a ho.
Posted by: beekay at December 12, 2001 1:48 AM
Jeff, I'm in total agreement about Mariah. Just read my rant in The Woods. She started dressing like a slut ever since she got her divorce. The sad thing is, she's a very attractive you lady. I've always thought she was pretty and now she just looks trashy. Yuk!
