Jun 132009
Do you consider me your friend? Well, that may be true now, but you might want to hold off on getting me that BFF charm bracelet. Studies show that social circles tend to look completely different after seven years. And no, that cute woman on your list of Facebook friends who used to know you in college but now only writes on your Wall once a year doesn’t count.
So if you’re waiting for me to buy that drink, you’d better get on my case because time’s a-wastin’.
I am so old-fashioned in this respect: when I don’t invite old friends to dinner any more, as I seem to do lately, probably out of pure laziness, I tend to feel guilty about it and think about these people daily!
As if friendship were eternal, or at least ought to last a lifetime.
It must be our Christian, deeply Catholic education which is to blame for this “psychological discomfort.”