that was a stressful episode
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sasha_feather"Pitch" was hard to watch this week; it centered on Ginny's friendships. In her life friendship is tenuous. People move away or get traded to other teams. It's the nature of her profession.
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When she fights to hold onto Blip, at the advice of her agent, she gets chewed out for it. This is just how baseball works, she's told. Ginny has yet to come to the logical conclusion, which is: make friends outside of baseball. And at the end of the episode, it seems (to Ginny) like Mike is choosing Amelia over Ginny.
I had a dream last night about my best friend from grad school. We were so close. I haven't spoken to her in years. We tried to hang onto our friendship after she moved away, but it didn't last. She got married, had a family, doesn't really use social media. This has happened multiple times. I didn't know until after grad school, that I should have made friends outside of grad school; or maybe I didn't know how since grad school was such a soul-sucking venture. I did eventually figure it out.
I also have a lingering, deep down suspicion or belief that friendships just don't last. That people will leave, either by choice or circumstance, or they will prioritize their romantic relationships (vastly) over their friendships.
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I'm so grateful for the frienships I've been able to maintain that seem to be able to last despite distance and circumstance and the friend getting married, etc; and social media seems to help a lot. A whole lot. I mean, having friends on the internet means that your friends go with you wherever the internet is, which is a lot of places. You take your internet friends with you when you travel or when you move. They are available all the time, if you don't mind waiting a little while for a reply. You can Skype or google chat. You can send each other funny memes. You can find friends with your strange, particular interests. Anyways, here's to you, internet friends!
spoilers
When she fights to hold onto Blip, at the advice of her agent, she gets chewed out for it. This is just how baseball works, she's told. Ginny has yet to come to the logical conclusion, which is: make friends outside of baseball. And at the end of the episode, it seems (to Ginny) like Mike is choosing Amelia over Ginny.
I had a dream last night about my best friend from grad school. We were so close. I haven't spoken to her in years. We tried to hang onto our friendship after she moved away, but it didn't last. She got married, had a family, doesn't really use social media. This has happened multiple times. I didn't know until after grad school, that I should have made friends outside of grad school; or maybe I didn't know how since grad school was such a soul-sucking venture. I did eventually figure it out.
I also have a lingering, deep down suspicion or belief that friendships just don't last. That people will leave, either by choice or circumstance, or they will prioritize their romantic relationships (vastly) over their friendships.
eta to expand and unlock
I'm so grateful for the frienships I've been able to maintain that seem to be able to last despite distance and circumstance and the friend getting married, etc; and social media seems to help a lot. A whole lot. I mean, having friends on the internet means that your friends go with you wherever the internet is, which is a lot of places. You take your internet friends with you when you travel or when you move. They are available all the time, if you don't mind waiting a little while for a reply. You can Skype or google chat. You can send each other funny memes. You can find friends with your strange, particular interests. Anyways, here's to you, internet friends!
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Date: 2016-11-02 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-02 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-02 10:03 am (UTC)So, I moved around a lot as a child, the upshot of which is that I have no childhood friends in my life and really haven't had, not for most of my life. We didn't have the luxury of revisiting places we'd been. Mostly I just lost contact soon after moving, though some stretched out with letter writing.
Anyway, what you wrote made me sad and happy. Mostly happy.
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Date: 2016-11-03 02:24 am (UTC)