Just Because Day/Banana Lovers Day/Compassion Day/Sweet Corn Festival (Ohio)
2008-08-27 @ 11:39 p.m.

Am done with work for the month, which is hardly as dramatic as it sounds, since I don't work that many hours per month anyway. It's just that being around new people all the time drains me. I think the reason why I always complete my FR on my way home is because it helps me to recentre myself, whatever that actually means. Have been reading Eddie Tay's second book of poems, A Lover's Soliloquy. I particularly liked After A Class Reunion, specifically the closing lines: "It is easy to be friends./After that, it is easy to become strangers again." When I think about some of the people I supposedly call my friends, at least according to that latest barometer of social networking, Facebook, I realise how true the sentiment encapsulated in those two lines is. Try as we might, sometimes we can't help but move on from one another, yeah? It all depends on how thoroughly we burn our bridges. Most of us never learn how to do that perfectly, which is just as well, I suppose. Regret, I find, helps to keep us human.