All Around Me

Some observations of late. I have decided there are three main categories of people I have had the pleasure/torture of meeting.

Category One – these are the people who clearly are just friends with me because of my connections. Despite their smooth, silver tongued ways, it is usually pretty obvious that had I been a different person they would not give me time of day. No matter, the obviousness only serves me to be more wary and at least I know where I stand with them.

Category Two – this is my favourite category. Friends who don’t give a flying rat’s ass about who I am but who at the same time are not blind to the implications of my life. Instead they find it amusing and are loyal to a fault. Most of them even go all out of their way to disclaim rumours that we are firm friends to avoid people taking advantage of it. Admittedly this circle of friends is small but then again I know I can count on them when push comes to shove.

Category Three – these people slightly perplexes me. I call them the in-betweeners because they don’t quite fit within One and Two. Just listen. These are the people who I have met and perhaps have only just discovered who I am or just realized it properly. Before this said ‘discovery’ or ‘revelation’ everything was hunky-dory but afterwards and usually with no pre-emptive measures they go all freaky and start acting all weird. Usually it’s because they can’t suddenly handle the ‘imaginary’ pressure that might come with it. I say ‘imaginary’ as I have not for the life of me had evidence that it could possible affect anybody’s life and even when my own is in contemplation, it is to a minimum. But for some odd reason they then back away on the pretext they don’t want to complicate my life when in truth it is to facilitate their own irrational fears. If I sound scathing I apologise but I have trouble reconciling these people. I just wonder how sometimes they can live with themselves. I mean Category One people are duplicitous but at least they are truthful about it so I don’t reckon they lose any sleep over it.

I am going on and on a bit but it’s just one of those things I noticed. I am not mad or anything and to be frank I am quite used to it. I just thought I’d share what these eyes have witnessed.