to be with you. Blech.

When I look back, I am occasionally amazed at how far I've come from being someone who didn't actually have close friends at 16 (at sixteen!!!) to being someone whose rare quiet periods have become cause for concern for people around me, some of whom I am not even that close to.

But this is much I know; even the best of people can disappoint. It may or it may not be their own fault, but while it takes effort to be within a circle, it takes even even more to be out of it and on your own.

While I can say that I'm fortunate enough not to be forced to be with people I don't like, I certainly wish that I could spend more time with a rare few. 

But we can only push ourselves so much and I certainly have in more ways than one....

And no, the pic has no relation to this post. I just think it's a funny picture of my brother posing with a dog who likes to sit on a wicker chair.