Friendship
I decided that I should dedicate more time towards maintaining the friendships I’ve created. Reading an article from Psychology Today concerning friendship increased my motivation and optimism in maintaining friendships even in long distance. Having friends is so essential, yet sometimes I let academia take over so much of my time that the bonds of friendship I’ve created are gradually severed. I’d like to make more of a commitment, to consciously take actions especially when feeling bored and idle to plan times for meeting my friends and actually calling them. What’s passed has passed. The present, and future are more important. People are flexible and they can change and adapt with conscious effort and intense determination. Just thinking that starting to take action is the hardest part, and that planning my free time brings me closer is comforting.
I hung out with two of my friends from high school yesterday. Although I felt out of place through lack of continuous contact, I think I can still bring back our friendship, since we do have common interests with art, band, and anime as important bonds. Band is now out of the picture, but art will always remain because that’s the most important factor in self identity for me. Sometimes, I push that part of me aside because academia is oriented more towards math and science, but I found that it’s still necessary to continue art as a hobby.
I haven’t worked on an art project for months, so now I present a picture that’s taken me hours of coloring delight. It’s a picture of an astronomical clock in Prague. I chose pen as the media because it’s longer lasting than both pencil and colored pencils as the colors won’t smear or fade as easily. One factor I hadn’t considered - which I should have considered - is the amount of time and effort it takes to color with a pen is actually more than what it would take to color with colored pencils. The result is also somewhat sharp and metallic as opposed to soft and pastel-like.
Sidenote: My New Years resolution is still going strong!
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I find the social transition from high school to post secondary quite fascinating. Some like to cling to their high school friendships. Such is either due to insecurity or because they do truly care about their friends and couldn’t bear to loose touch with them.
I find the latter to be very, very rare. It’s blunt, it’s cynical, but it’s true.
It’s natural for those friendships to diminish because the transition from high school to post secondary is the pursuing of individual interests. For that matter, perhaps there is a larger emphasis on one’s own interests than on the interests which they share with others. Provided that one is studying that which they are truly interested in.
Nonetheless, I admire those who make a point of keeping those friendships. I admire those who are successful even more. I wish you good luck.
Love the clock. Even though pen might be more laborious, I think that the effect it has achieved is more appropriate.
Sweet picture! It looks amazing. And you actually quit band!?!
It’s nice to keep friendships together. People say that high school and college friends are the ones that are “forever” because they’re the ones you grow up with. It’s possible, and even when the bond is severed, it can be rebuilt very quickly, because both people were once in a state of harmony, and know how to enter it again.
Try to revive the bonds with your closest high school friends, and keep the ones with your college friends. It should be worth it. It was worth it when I kept in touch with my middle school friends after moving away, despite the fact that many of those bonds would have broken if I hadn’t moved anyway.
It’s difficult, difficult, difficult, yet worth it.
Incidentally, we think alike - I wonder if professional translators are just terrible or if we have a similar degree of aptitude and are missing something when we consider translations.