{"id":3660,"date":"2005-10-12T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2020-12-03T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T22:12:30","slug":"brain-dump-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"Brain Dump: Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does that line from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113749\/\">Mallrats<\/a> go?  &#8220;&#8230;and how they only concern themselves with peers and company that effect their noble goals and pursuits&#8230;&#8221;  It&#8217;s something like that.  Needless to say, (then why am I saying it?) there are those among my friends that do not fit in this category.  There are those that I hang out with, have concern for, and devote time to that don&#8217;t really deserve it.  I&#8217;m repaid for my efforts with lies, drama, and frustration.  Finally, I find myself asking the same question that <lj user=\"benniferus\"> has been asking for a while.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>How many times have I told <lj user=\"atropis\"> that I&#8217;d come and spend time with her in Detroit?  Nate, Cheryl, <lj user=\"roscop\">, <lj user=\"storyweaverone\">, Mike, and <lj user=\"atdt1991\"> in Ann Arbor?  <lj user=\"ga\"> in Cleveland?  Hell, Eric and Scott Thom in the same damn city&#8230; why?  And now <lj user=\"peculiaire\"> is moving from Royal Oak to Washington, D.C.  I keep saying that I&#8217;m going to be a frequent traveler on Greyhound and Amtrak.  What&#8217;s been the hold up?<\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/lj><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what.  Instead of spending time taking care of those things that would allow me to see the ones I miss, I&#8217;ve been spending it with people that don&#8217;t deserve it.  Spending energy on drama and bullshit instead of being a good friend to good people.  I know good people that love and miss me.  Why am I pissing life away on those that see me as a means to an end?<\/p>\n<p>My wife is too brilliant for her own good.  ;)<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, to those of you who read this and are worried that I&#8217;m talking about you&#8230; ask me.  I give you my word that I will be honest and straightforward with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does that line from Mallrats go? &#8220;&#8230;and how they only concern themselves with peers and company that effect their noble goals and pursuits&#8230;&#8221; It&#8217;s something like that. Needless to say, (then why am I saying it?) there are those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-X2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}