You know that friend we all have? The one who never asks about you unless you leave some monumentally unsubtle hint, but can talk about himself forever and a day without pausing for breath? The one with whom a conversation is in fact a contest of one-uppmanship that you don’t even realize you’re having until about twelve minutes in and you’re casting about for that ONE experience of SOMETHING you had that you know she didn’t? The one whom you have to schedule everything with otherwise they’ll NEVER actually do what they say they’ll do? And half the time they don’t do it even when it’s scheduled, and you just can’t help but feel like the most trivial thing is now the biggest deal in the world because it just keeps happening. What is it about that friend that we keep coming back to? Why can’t we just cut ourselves off from them and live happily ever after? Surely that has to be better than the constant feeling of disappointment. Just think of the mental stress that could be avoided if only you didn’t have to store up little moments of “LOOK AT ME I’M WORTH TALKING ABOUT TOO”. And yet we keep turning back to them as though the punishment adds some kind of validation to your existence; when in fact all it does is give you something to whine at your mother about. And all she’s going to do is tell you to let go and cut off the friendship, but you know you can’t. What is it about that friend and why do we keep falling for it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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