So we had a party last night and I think it went pretty well. I love waking up the next morning with our girl friends, recapping what had happened the night before - people falling into bushes, seeing people's asses, going through all the blackmail pictures we took (always a good sign that we had a good time). It was a warm day with a breeze coming into our house and my awesome roommate cooked us all brunch and we all sat around just chillin' for a couple hours, not doing anything. We hadn't done this in awhile and I forgot what it felt like to just sit there doing absolutely nothing with a group of friends you love hanging out with, people you can't live without.
I had a conversation with my sister over the phone the other day and I told her we were having a party. She said, "Oh, who's all going?" I said I don't know; so far we have about 40 people on our evite. She said "That's it? We normally have parties where we invite like 300 people. 40 doesn't seem like that many people. How come you don't invite anyone else?" I said, "We don't have anyone else to invite. We really don't know that many people and we already invited friends of friends." Then she said, "Is this what happens when a bunch of introverted people become friends?" At that point, I didn't really know what to say and my response was "I guess." But I don't really think that we're all that introverted - my personality test did say that I was an extrovert...haha. Talking with my sister made me feel like our group of friends didn't really have that many friends at all, compared to her 300. She then said "I guess it's because you have a really close core group of friends whereas I don't think I have that. I have a bunch of different group of friends that we hang out with on different occassions." And I said, "Yea, that's true."
After that conversation, I thought about my friends and how we all are pretty close. Some of us work together, live together, and hang out together. People always ask us if we fight and get sick of each other, but really, we don't fight at all, and I don't think we're sick of each other either.
It's weird how all of us came together, like it was fate. I met my roommate at our freshman college orientation and we ended up, coincidentally, living in the same dorm our freshman year. I met another one of the gals at my orientation as well - she was my orientation roommate for the weekend and we didn't really talk or hang out with each other at all. Then one day of our senior year in collge, after four years of not seeing or speaking with each other, we ended up working at the same company for an internship, and ever since then, we've become really good friends. I met the fourth in our group, Soy Beans, through my next door neighbor in our dorm, a girl who used to be a good friend. Ironically, I'm better friends with Soy Beans now than I am with her. It's really strange how things work out. I guess my freshman year in college was a good year for me.
So I thought about whether it's better to have that huge group of 300 friends or having a small close group of friends, and I came to the conclusion that I'm totally fine with where I am now with my small group of friends. We have fun, and sometimes that's all that really matters - and I'm happy with that because I don't think we'd all be the same people we are now if it were any different.
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true that sistah. ;) glad you have that with your friends. not everyone is lucky enough to have that. :)
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