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Love Songs
Mar. 29th, 2005 05:25 pmA couple nights ago, for some bored reason, I decided to figure out who of the 41 people on my friends list I have known the longest. To my surprise, there is not a single soul on the list who has known me for more than 7 years. At first it struck me as strange since I'm the type of person who keeps her friends for decades, but now that I think about it it kinda makes sense. I didn't get my first glimpse of the internet until 1998, and didn't figure out what to do with the damn thing till 2000, so of course the people on this list who have known me the longest are the same people who taught me how to use the internet in the first place.
And being the nostalgic sap I am, I started thinking about the first time I met all of you. I can still remember. For some I remember every detail down to the color panties I was wearing at the time, for others I can't even recall the time and place. There are some of you who I know for certain don't remember our first meeting, if only for the fact that it didn't necessarily coincide with the start of our friendship. But simply recalling all those moments made me feel so warm. Not to get all sentimantal and crap but the start of a friendship is so special, so electrifying. It's the same as falling in love, only better. When you fall in love with a friend it's not because you're blinded by lust or desire, not because you're co-dependent and don't know how to be alone, it's because you genuinely like the person. No ulterior motives (for the most part.)
So in an attempt to make us all happy and nostalgic, as well as keep myself entertained for the next 4 hours, I'm going to tell the stories of how I met each and every one of you. Of course, I should mention that by "each and every one of you" I mean those of you I've had the pleasure of meeting in real life. It's much more difficult to recall "details" surrounding my online acquaintences. But for four or five notable exceptions I can't rememeber how most of us found each other. Forgive me for leaving you out my friends. However I will write about the aforementioned notable exceptions. I'm gonna proceed in chronological order, starting with the person I've known the longest to the one I've most recently come in contact with. This is gonna take a long time so I'll write in installments. This entry will cover all the people I met in 1998.
Enough blathering, let's begin.
( Write a novel why don'tcha? )
And being the nostalgic sap I am, I started thinking about the first time I met all of you. I can still remember. For some I remember every detail down to the color panties I was wearing at the time, for others I can't even recall the time and place. There are some of you who I know for certain don't remember our first meeting, if only for the fact that it didn't necessarily coincide with the start of our friendship. But simply recalling all those moments made me feel so warm. Not to get all sentimantal and crap but the start of a friendship is so special, so electrifying. It's the same as falling in love, only better. When you fall in love with a friend it's not because you're blinded by lust or desire, not because you're co-dependent and don't know how to be alone, it's because you genuinely like the person. No ulterior motives (for the most part.)
So in an attempt to make us all happy and nostalgic, as well as keep myself entertained for the next 4 hours, I'm going to tell the stories of how I met each and every one of you. Of course, I should mention that by "each and every one of you" I mean those of you I've had the pleasure of meeting in real life. It's much more difficult to recall "details" surrounding my online acquaintences. But for four or five notable exceptions I can't rememeber how most of us found each other. Forgive me for leaving you out my friends. However I will write about the aforementioned notable exceptions. I'm gonna proceed in chronological order, starting with the person I've known the longest to the one I've most recently come in contact with. This is gonna take a long time so I'll write in installments. This entry will cover all the people I met in 1998.
Enough blathering, let's begin.
( Write a novel why don'tcha? )
