I have noticed that a lot of my friends are overwhelmingly tired right now -- unable to function. I first noticed this change when I went back to Vermont for Thanksgiving and gathered around my old friends comparing bald spots. That was the first sign.
Next, people started making drastic decisions that cut off a certain part of their past. I guess that I did this at a young age when Chelsea and I moved to GA when I was 24 -- a place where we would not be followed. I learned from my father that people who you love sometimes stand in the way of your goals and you have no choice but to go around them, or barrel through them and that is what I did. Now, a lot more people I grew up with are doing the same.
People are moving on with their lives all around. Large uprootings. An Oedipal adventure awaits them. Most will come back someday, but the one's who succeed won't. They will stay away.
But everyone is tired - tired before anything has started. This is how we feel:
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you make me laugh. i will miss you.
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