They comes, and goes, and goes
Two more people told me this weekend they're leaving town.
This is one of the things that sucks the most about living in a transitional town like this. All the people you really like eventually leave, and it's just harsh. And all the wallpaper people in your life--the people you aren't particularly close to, and maybe don't even like very much but see around all the time--all the faces just disappear, and they're replaced by new faces, and all the new faces are 19 and think you're lame. And if you are a person who actually stays here, because it IS a good place and you've got a good job and you've still got a few good faces around, you start to feel sort of rutted and stationary, like everybody else is moving on without you. It's like everybody else is going off to junior high and you're being held back in elementary another year, but you're the one holding you back. Or not. I don't know.
While I'm in a mildly depressy groove, one more story. A guy I work with came around today and gave everybody in the company a paper cut-out of a jack-o-lantern for their offices or cubicles. On the one hand, it's really quite sweet; on the other hand, the thought of him sitting at home this weekend cutting out fifty pumpkins and giving them little marker-drawn faces makes me want to cry.
Okay. On to other things! It's 6 pm, it's 37 degrees, and I've got a softball game to play!
posted by tornadia @ 7:06 PM
2 Comments:
Yes, it's sad to witness the exodus of good friends. However, I've got some pretty solid sources that tell me the same sort-of-thing happens in big cities like Chicago. As soon as someone espouses and procreates, there is an overwhelming tendency for her to move and get lost in suburbia for ever and ever! :-)
uh huh. and some have said it's a twenties/thirties thang rather than a specific location-thang, that people just move more when they're younger and decidedly not settled, and relatively unrooted (or free of feeling tightly tied to any rootedness they do have).
sorry that all the peoples are leaving.
on another note, saying "im here because i want to be here. i can leave at any time" and really meaning it makes staying a happy choice centered on whatever good reasons are involved, rather than an obligation. and who needs more obligation, especially to sucky things that kill your spirit and bring little joy?
still, it does sucks to be the last one at camp, unless you either really, really love camp, or can shift attention well.
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