Pleasantries

I've just come across one of the most all-encompassing statements ever - "Once a bitch, always a bitch". How interesting.

I think it's quite easy to let go of bitchhood. People you once thought were bitches in highschool have come to grips with their insecurities or found an inner peace that has totally changed them. On the flipside, it's very easy to become a bitch, when you suddenly find yourself well short of the goals you set and everyone else seems to be cruising quite happily in their lives.

What eats away at you? Are you happy with where you are? With the people in your life? Does writing about friendships truly celebrate them or do you write to convince everyone but most especially yourself that everything's peachy? How about sitting there quietly and soaking in all the wonderful companionship that's lasted the test of time?

How do you know what the unfortunates that you've carefully labelled 'bitch' are thinking? Do you think everyone's still so wrapped up in the era that was highschool? Don't you think that you yourself are a bitch because you sit there and judge?

Maybe we are wrapped up in highschool only because the circle of friends hasn't changed. After all, we form our strongest bonds in those precious secondary years, so it's quite natural we keep running into the same people over and over again. So maybe it's okay to stay wrapped up in certain parts of highschool, but not so okay to cling to that childishness that triggers the many bouts of being the insufferable know-it-all. And mega-bitch.