Friend

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What kind of person is your friend?
Not someone for whom you can die; that is your “idol.”
Nor someone for whom you live; that is only your beloved.
Nor necessarily someone you spend every day with, inseparable; that may just be playmates.
Nor necessarily someone who shares your ideals and understands you; that may be comrades or bosom friends.
Simply put, a friend is someone with whom you can share joy and shoulder sorrow.
You are sad because your friend is sad, and joyful because your friend is joyful.
Sorry, I said that wrong. Such a person is your family.
Well, anyway, friends and family are more or less the same.
They are the bond between you and this world.
Sometimes you want to break away from them and be free and unfettered.
But without them, your world will become…
Become what?
Always lacking something.
Care, concern.
What you need is not others’ care and concern for you,
but instead your own yearning to care for and be concerned about others.
When you care about them, your heart is truly full.
Why did I suddenly write such strange words?
Probably because the two swigs of Erguotou I drank last night are starting to hit me.

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    UNIC

    2007-09-15 20:51:28 Anonymous 220.171.177.68 [Reply]

    What kind of person is your friend? 
    Not someone for whom you can die; that is your “idol.” 
    Nor someone for whom you live; that is only your beloved. 
    Nor necessarily someone you spend every day with, inseparable; that may just be playmates. 
    Nor necessarily someone who shares your ideals and understands you; that may be comrades or bosom friends. 
    _____________________ 
    Why divide things so clearly? 
    A friend is just a friend. Sometimes you suddenly want to call him “friend”——–and then he is one. 
    Wine makes people “drunk”…

     
    古雴

    2007-09-15 21:10:07 [Reply]

    Sometimes I suddenly want to call certain people “bastard,” but they are not. 
    I never classify the people around me; each person is unique, and my relationship with each person is also unique. What words I want to use to describe these relationships is, in principle, of no consequence. 
    I say these things with a context. 
    I don’t know anything, and I don’t want to ask about anything. 
    But I also feel sad. Concerned. 
    A rare experience. 
    A long-absent stirring. 
    Thinking of some things. 
    I have hardly drunk at all. On the contrary, it was my first time seeing someone drunk. 
    It seems being drunk is not a bad thing. At the farewell dinner, I’ll try to get drunk once.

     
    mist

    2007-09-15 21:54:24 Anonymous 211.166.9.17 [Reply]

    It cannot be denied that for some people, whether they are sad or not, I don’t care; but when certain other people are sad, I truly cannot bear to see it. 
    I also know nothing, and I don’t want to ask about anything. I’m just waiting, waiting for others to tell me when they are willing to. But so far no one has told me. 
    Also, I continue to deny that I was drunk, and only admit to a period of amnesia. 
    Again, alcohol should not be drunk when one is in a low mood; even at a farewell, one should not drink to drunkenness. That is my view.

     
    古雴

    2007-09-15 22:05:39 [Reply]

    I also think alcohol should not be drunk to drunkenness when one is in a low mood; in fact, it should never be drunk to drunkenness at any time. But whether one should or should not is a rational consideration, and once you’re drunk, you lose control over reason, so then it doesn’t matter whether you should or should not~ A farewell is not necessarily a low mood. I chose that time because under normal circumstances I basically avoid drinking, and I also don’t have any proper pretext for drinking…

      
    mist

    2007-09-15 22:22:16 Anonymous 124.17.16.85 [Reply]

    Being plied with drink by me~ how about that as a pretext?

      
    古雴

    2007-09-15 22:41:36 [Reply]

    Under normal circumstances I do not accept being plied with drink~~  Within the near future, probably only at a farewell dinner, when someone forces me to drink, will I have no way to refuse, so if I want to try getting drunk, it will only have to wait until then~

      
    UNIC

    2007-09-15 23:04:06 Anonymous 220.171.177.68 [Reply]

    As for getting drunk 
    once 
    there will be a second time 
    You boys 
    could never possibly go through life without it 
    I rather think 
    if you want to get drunk, then get drunk.

      
    mist

    2007-09-16 00:57:02 Anonymous 124.17.16.8 [Reply]

    I really have never been drunk. If the behavior after getting drunk means losing decorum, then I seem not to have had that experience yet. 
    Or, like Gu, I still haven’t encountered an opportunity where I could safely get drunk… 
    Thus I always try my best to control myself.

      
    mist

    2007-09-16 01:03:44 Anonymous 124.17.16.8 [Reply]

    Also, I just searched for someone’s name and discovered that if I really played chess against her, I would definitely lose very miserably… 
    But we already arranged to play chess tomorrow…

      
    mist

    2007-09-16 01:11:10 Anonymous 211.166.9.17 [Reply]

    The more I look at the search results, the more embarrassed I get… 
    Tomorrow I’m definitely doomed… 
    That afternoon you
    shouldn’t have come to the dormitory… 
    For this, you absolutely must bg apologize…

      
    UNIC

    2007-09-16 01:33:01 Anonymous 220.171.177.68 [Reply]

    To get drunk, indeed you have to “encounter an opportunity where you can safely get drunk…”

      
    古雴

    2007-09-16 01:37:58 [Reply]

    Good luck to you~~ 
    I introduced you to such a formidable junior sister, and instead of bg-ing me, you turn around and demand bg from me; where is justice in heaven and earth!?

      
    mist

    2007-09-16 02:09:35 Anonymous 211.166.9.17 [Reply]

    …Do you want to watch how I am bullied by others?

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