Do I really have friends?
... I'm starting to think I have very few...
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Not to toot my own horn, but I've always been a decently popular guy. I can get along with most anyone I ever meet. I have soo many varying hobies that normally I have something to talk about to most everyone I run across, therefore giving me something to talk to them about and which normally if not leading to a major friendship, they always at least say Hi, and don't give me nasty looks.
Now recently though, I decided that since I couldn't find a job on my own, that could work with what limited scheduling I'm able to do, that I'd Enlist, and go into the Military. Apparently this is something akin to betrayal to most of my friends. They keep telling me things such as "You'll never survive in such a Conservative environment" or "You won't like anyone, and won't be able to take the physical requirements they will ask of you!" (To that last one I just had to laugh because I'm going to the Air force!!! lol Other military will join me in that laugh I'm sure
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So those things have been said by my "best friends" and I've come to learn even more of their opinions on me... Apparently behind my back they will say that they have no respect for me... and what makes me laugh about that is they say they don't have respect for me because I won't initiate a bar fight!!! I can't help but laugh at that, because it's just a ridiculous judgement. I won't EVER start a fight... but that doesn't at all mean I won't back up a friend, or help break one up etc.... I'm too nice of a guy to ever initiate violence, but I have a very few friends who have actually seen me in a fight, and those say that it was odd watching guys bigger than myself bounce off of me... I'm a pretty short guy, but I'm built like a brick house
I learned at a young age that when I DO get into fights, I normally end up hurting the other guy pretty hard... I can put a LOT of my weight into my punches and know how to fight... so I've always tried to take the road of pacification unless violence is really required....
Well now that I've gone off on that little self back patting rant and ego-boost... I have to really go back and consider about my friends.... or if they really can be considered real friends when they have no respect for me. What sucks about this is I'd have never learned about this had I not taken one of them out to a bar one night and he ended up getting really trashed and going all "drunken confessional".... Just makes me think that no matter how well you think you know some people, they end up being totally 2 sided on you.
Though I guess I could throw all of them for a loop... Most all of my friends have a problem with another one of my friends... Only because this friend of mine is gay. What would erk em off is that now easily I'd consider my gay friend to be my best friend. Because easily I know that he will tell me strait up what he thinks of me... I've had examples of that quality of his for a long while.. lol
It's also taught me that my 'friends', though they swore up and down they aren't homophobic, are pretty anti-gay... damn lying bastards are now harassing my friend... I think it's close to time I might innitiate violence if they don't stop it.....
Now recently though, I decided that since I couldn't find a job on my own, that could work with what limited scheduling I'm able to do, that I'd Enlist, and go into the Military. Apparently this is something akin to betrayal to most of my friends. They keep telling me things such as "You'll never survive in such a Conservative environment" or "You won't like anyone, and won't be able to take the physical requirements they will ask of you!" (To that last one I just had to laugh because I'm going to the Air force!!! lol Other military will join me in that laugh I'm sure
)So those things have been said by my "best friends" and I've come to learn even more of their opinions on me... Apparently behind my back they will say that they have no respect for me... and what makes me laugh about that is they say they don't have respect for me because I won't initiate a bar fight!!! I can't help but laugh at that, because it's just a ridiculous judgement. I won't EVER start a fight... but that doesn't at all mean I won't back up a friend, or help break one up etc.... I'm too nice of a guy to ever initiate violence, but I have a very few friends who have actually seen me in a fight, and those say that it was odd watching guys bigger than myself bounce off of me... I'm a pretty short guy, but I'm built like a brick house
I learned at a young age that when I DO get into fights, I normally end up hurting the other guy pretty hard... I can put a LOT of my weight into my punches and know how to fight... so I've always tried to take the road of pacification unless violence is really required....
Well now that I've gone off on that little self back patting rant and ego-boost... I have to really go back and consider about my friends.... or if they really can be considered real friends when they have no respect for me. What sucks about this is I'd have never learned about this had I not taken one of them out to a bar one night and he ended up getting really trashed and going all "drunken confessional".... Just makes me think that no matter how well you think you know some people, they end up being totally 2 sided on you.
Though I guess I could throw all of them for a loop... Most all of my friends have a problem with another one of my friends... Only because this friend of mine is gay. What would erk em off is that now easily I'd consider my gay friend to be my best friend. Because easily I know that he will tell me strait up what he thinks of me... I've had examples of that quality of his for a long while.. lol
It's also taught me that my 'friends', though they swore up and down they aren't homophobic, are pretty anti-gay... damn lying bastards are now harassing my friend... I think it's close to time I might innitiate violence if they don't stop it.....