Hi folks, hope you're all holding up good these days. Apologies for my lack of a post last week. If anyone was curious: Netflix's The Circle
This week's theme is friends, which is a topic I feel wholly underqualified to take on. After having spent much of the last year slowly but surely drifting away from any sense of permanence (constantly moving around, changing internships, etc), my grasp of who exactly I am allowed to call a "friend" grows more and more tenuous.
[Okay, I keep trying to write this post and it keeps getting extremely weepy and overall a huge bummer. TL;DR: we are living through a public health and mental health crisis and today feels like a harder than average week to write about the concept of friendship. It's like one of those little ironies where the universe asks you confront exactly what's been bothering you. But I won't do that here today. Instead, I'm just going to write about my friend Jude, who is moving soon, and whom I love dearly]
My circle in Norwood is pretty much exclusively my family, but to be honest, I have started to expand it a little bit, now that we are on Phase 3 of Massachusetts reopening. One of my friends that I've been hanging out with is my friend Jude (I have written about them on here before, bc they used to go by R*ver!) who is very cool and who I'm very grateful to know.
Technically, I've known Jude since high school, but I would say that we've only really become friends in the past couple years and we've only become close since I've been home from DC. They graduated with my sister and we were in marching band together, but they did colorguard, and I was in the woodwind section, so I got to know some of my sister's other friends, but I never spent much time with Jude.
They went to art school in the North Shore of MA and they're a really talented illustrator and jewelry-maker and all around cool guy !!
Also I've been (lazily) trying to learn how to skate so we went skating and they showed me how to a little and lent me their board *WARNING: romantique*
They were the person Colleen and I hung out with the most before the pandemic and I'm really grateful that we've expanded our circles to include each other. This has been a really rough time but it's a lot better now that we get to dick around and do stupid stuff together all 3 of us again.
They're moving to Salem soon, and I'm really happy for them because I know they have more friends up there and like the area a lot. But I'll be pretty sad when they're no longer 5 minutes down the street from us. But in any case, I'm hoping that we can go on some fun picnics and try to make some good memories during this Sad Girl Summer before they move.
<3
(btw if anyone wants to escape to Montreal for the fall, hit my line/LINE)
Lol I like Aboni’s typo: “... Salem was too fat from Norwood”😂 But I agree with Aboni, I didn’t think Salem wasn’t too far. But when someone is 5 minutes away vs 1+ away, it can seem like they are super far away. Your friend Jude seems cool tho!They already get 1000584838 cool points just by being able to skate board. Anyway, I feel like those kinds of relationship developments are cool. Like you have a sense of someone and then you really get to know them and hang out with them a lot and then you’re like, “Why didn’t I hang out with them sooner?!” It’s crazy, but I feel it makes you appreciate them more. Anyway, I know these are some…
They seem cool. I’m sorry these times have been proven difficult, but at least you’re able to sift through who’s a real one and who’s a hoe right :) (trying to make you smile). Anyway i didn’t think Salem was too fat from Norwood, but I get it being only 5 minutes away is definitely a gift. Anyway hang in there bud you’re always welcome to stay at mi casa for a while if you like. Tbh I wanna pick up my stuff from the trunk room at Smith and drive back to Georgia. If possible you can join me on my way back ;)