Is it just me and my pathetic life, or has the concept of friendship gotten completely lost?

It seems that with the hustle and bustle of everyday life, people have forgotten what it means to be a friend. It seems everyone I know, including myself have started a transitional time in their life and it seems are busy just trying to keep their head about the proverbial water.

I understand that most of my friends, like me, are 20-somethings and have just graduated from college and are looking for careers, planning weddings or something of the sort, but when has is become so hard to just say a quick hello?

Now, let me mention and I think this will come as no surprise, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY…we have amazing things like the internet where we can instant message, facebook and myspace as we so please…and we can text message until our hearts are content..so why with all this technology don’t we feel the need to send a simple hello to a friend.

It isn’t a hard concept to grasp..you have a friend…you haven’t spoken to them in some time..how hard is it to log-in to facebook, search their name..scroll to their wall and write, “hey, haven’t talked to you in awhile…how are you?” or something of the sort…that takes..at most..a minute. Now, I completely understand that people have jobs and are busy and are trying to figure stuff out..but don’t even try to tell me that most people on average check facebook at the very least..once a week…and in that time you can’t see that your oldest and dearest friend is wondering how you are…and you can’t even write them back..but what you can do..is add bumper stickers, update your profile pic, change around your top friends (stupid facebook apps) but you have just been so busy..that you saw said post…read it..but can’t write back..serisouly…are you kidding me?

So, all I am trying to say is, in general, people suck. With all this technology we, as society, have become lazy and..well lazy. There is no reason that you can’t send a quick email. I bet it takes a hell of a lot less time than writing a letter and people used to do that back in the day. Or an IM…no one can be bothered to type a quick ‘hello’ while they are wasting away facebooking…come on, you all know as well as I do we have all mastered the art of ‘multi-tasking’ years ago..lets put it to good use. And almost everyone and their mother have a cell phone these days, do not even TELL me you are too busy while WALKING to class that you can’t scroll through the contacts to catch up, even if it is just for 5 minutes, on your way to class…not that long ago..not everyone had cell phones so the convenience of a telephone wasn’t as easy as pushing “SEND” or the green phone on a cell..but it is now.

I would say that I do my best to keep in touch with people, I try and send emails..(and I am not sure if I am the only one thinking this..but does it bother anyone else when you ask someone a series of questions or make a statement that will illicit a response..to hear NOTHING in return?) and keep in contact as much as I can…but I am about to say screw it.

Screw it all!

“There comes a time when you’re doing something & realize it just doesn’t make sense to keep doing it… you’re not quitting you just know, enough is enough.”

And at this point, enough is enough, I will not exhaust my efforts to people that do not appreciate my friendship.

If those people do not consider me a good enough friend to have the decency to get back to me at some point in the not so distant future..then clearly I do not need them in my life. And I know I am not the only one that feels this way…

And that…is why I have a lot of suckfriends!

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