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Didn't we all used to be friends?
Anonymous:
I'm sorry for anyone who feels hurt or abandoned by the other girls they attended MMS with, but I do think it's important to remember that we didn't all used to be friends. While at MMS you weren't allowed to be rude to people,tell them you didn't like them, or not be around them. Just because you're in a group like that doesn't mean that everyone is friends and loves each other,it just means that they aren't allowed to express their feelings of dislike for certain people. There were definately people at MMS that I didn't like and wouldn't have been around if I didn't have to. I don't have any ill will towards them, but I also don't expect anything from them at all. I'm not sure if people are not realizing this, but it seems like some people were honestly under the impression that everyone was friends and did care for each other. Maybe realizing that wasn't how it really was will help those people get past any hurt or resentments they have towards certain other girls.
Melissa Gower.
Anonymous:
THE TOPIC "DIDN'T WE ALL USED TO BE FRIENDS"
does not mean that we were ALL friends. It means that we were all aquaintances to one another, but we formed many strong relationships together, especially with those who we choose to be our closest friends. I could name many many girls that I would get along with, and most would consider me to be their close friend. It's unrealistic to say that EVERYONE was friends, its just an expression, and it seemed obvious to me that it was only an expression.I don't think anyone else realy got the impression that we were all great buddies. I can say for myself that I loved many girls there, and I also didn't like a handful.
The point is that it seems like everything was just for pretend. I told many girls I cared aobut them soo much, and I sobbed when they left the school, but after leaving the school myself I didn't really care.I was just glad that I made it out, and that's the way it seems now.....eveyone was just fighting for themselves even if it meant being really fake.
How can you tell someone you are their best friend and then somehow years down the road you could care less about how they feel, espeacially in this matter of things. yes people change, but friendships don't become serious friendships and then end quickly after the inconvinience of distance, or whatever. all those friends you had were never really friends..or were they? It was all a fasade. maybe the title should have been "THE FRIENDS THAT I NEVER REALLY HAD" because I see the way she put it was that no one was ever trully friends....and truthfully I never made any "true" friends there either.....it was like a show....relationships formed out of pressure - using one another just to make it through to survive.
Antigen:
I'm w/ ya', Melissa. That's just the way I viewed things. But I've come to realize that some other kids (now middle aged) really did buy in on that level. You tell a lie often enough and you begin to believe it. You tell a lie daily or more under circumstances where there are harsh consequences either for lying or for refusing to lie, and that can be a real mind f***; especially when the lies are so deeply personal in nature.
But you're right. "Aren't we all friends?" is a false appeal. Sorry, no, you were not. Just unfortunate strangers trapped for a time in the Twilight Zone :eek:
But ya'll do have that in common. So there's no need for any of you to treat each other as enemies.
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Anonymous:
antigen,
where you replying to Melissa, or the post above yours?
Antigen:
Both, I suppose.
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race?
--Frederic Bastiat -- 1801-1850
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