it’s very worth doing it-I just said stuff this, this is my life, too short to waste on not doing what I want to do, or wasting it on people that are not worth my time or that I’m not worth theirs-I’m particularly proud of a moment when a girl whom I didn’t want to keep in contact with from school (actually, didn’t want to keep in touch with anyone from school because of the bad memories, but especially she) Facebooked me three times! I refused, thinking she’d get the point, but finally I blocked her, and soon she found out (as we have mutual friends and I probably wrote a wall post or something she could see), and wrote a really angry email to me asking why. I just said I wasn’t interested in being friends with her, and she had written that why wouldn’t you be? we were friends at school! And I said nup-we really never were, and that was the fact of the situation-and there it was. Now I know she told all our mutual friends, but still one continues to keep in touch with me (and we weren’t even particularly close either so it wasn’t as if she had any real reason to keep in touch!) and we had lunch for the first time in two years (we’re at uni and never see each other) just this semester! I was very gratified for that one friend’s friendship, especially as I really didn’t care anymore—let everyone make their judgement of me, if they are willing to be friends, fine, and if not, then never mind. And THAT’S the kind of thinking I would never have imagined myself thinking while at school, let alone carrying out for myself!
So just put yourself out there, do your own thing, and just trust in yourself. I’ve done that since coming to uni (I don’t deny I had to for a lot of things at uni) and nothing bad’s come of it—if anything, I feel a lot better at the end of every day!
