A late Christmas present
February 22nd 2012 15:07
I've meant to start writing on here for months but never did.
I've been thinking how strange it is that everyone's life teaches them different lessons, and during different periods of their life. Like how someone in their 40's can suddenly stop being selfish, because some event in their life totally changed their outlook.
I was telling a lady at work that one of my best friends is a guy I was a total asshole to, even a bully. She thought it was funny because I'm skinny and joke around all the time.
She asked me how I ended up being friends with a guy who should have hated me. Here's the story...
I transferred from my first job, a McDonald's called Mcstop because it's at a truck stop, to one that was actually in town. I was 15 and rode my bike to work. I had to ride home in the rain after my last day at Mcstop, and I lost control of my bike about 3 blocks from home. Totally wiped out as a car drove by.
At the store I transferred to, there was one guy who I knew from somewhere but wasn't sure where.
It was Orion, whose bus I'd been kicked off of a while back (for stabbing him with a pen...don't judge). I didn't even have the feeling he was someone I disliked. I just knew we knew each other.
He walked up and said something like Hey. If we're gonna work together, we should agree to get along.
I said Okay, sure, because I still wasn't sure who he was.
We've been good friends for 16 or 17 years now, and he's my only friend I can say this about: I can do anything with him and have a really good time. If he asked me to come sit in the waiting room while his kids saw the dentist, I'd do it and even be excited to hang out with him.
That's stupid. But I really have that friend.
My point is, he created this friendship by approaching me and being reasonable. He was 14 or 15 and already acting more adult than a lot of adults.
We all know someone a decade older than he was, who isn't that mature.
Some people don't seem to learn any lessons, but most people slowly learn from life experience. It's just weird how we learn different lessons, and in different orders. I'm in my early 30's and just starting to learn patience. But I give advice to other people about things I've learned that they haven't.
I didn't give any of my friends Christmas presents, but maybe Orion will count this as one.
I've been thinking how strange it is that everyone's life teaches them different lessons, and during different periods of their life. Like how someone in their 40's can suddenly stop being selfish, because some event in their life totally changed their outlook.
I was telling a lady at work that one of my best friends is a guy I was a total asshole to, even a bully. She thought it was funny because I'm skinny and joke around all the time.
She asked me how I ended up being friends with a guy who should have hated me. Here's the story...
I transferred from my first job, a McDonald's called Mcstop because it's at a truck stop, to one that was actually in town. I was 15 and rode my bike to work. I had to ride home in the rain after my last day at Mcstop, and I lost control of my bike about 3 blocks from home. Totally wiped out as a car drove by.
At the store I transferred to, there was one guy who I knew from somewhere but wasn't sure where.
It was Orion, whose bus I'd been kicked off of a while back (for stabbing him with a pen...don't judge). I didn't even have the feeling he was someone I disliked. I just knew we knew each other.
He walked up and said something like Hey. If we're gonna work together, we should agree to get along.
I said Okay, sure, because I still wasn't sure who he was.
We've been good friends for 16 or 17 years now, and he's my only friend I can say this about: I can do anything with him and have a really good time. If he asked me to come sit in the waiting room while his kids saw the dentist, I'd do it and even be excited to hang out with him.
That's stupid. But I really have that friend.
My point is, he created this friendship by approaching me and being reasonable. He was 14 or 15 and already acting more adult than a lot of adults.
We all know someone a decade older than he was, who isn't that mature.
Some people don't seem to learn any lessons, but most people slowly learn from life experience. It's just weird how we learn different lessons, and in different orders. I'm in my early 30's and just starting to learn patience. But I give advice to other people about things I've learned that they haven't.
I didn't give any of my friends Christmas presents, but maybe Orion will count this as one.
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