Is it the week's end?

There are the group of friends who are down to drink any night of the week because their schedules are based on fulltime jobs and don’t conflict with exams or assignments, where then there’s the group of friends who are seldom to escape their studies yet are astoundingly stimulating in terms of conversation. I’m asking myself at this point in my education, will there be a train that I get on that departs before those out of school can reach it, and will it be going somewhere that will distance us too drastically apart?

It’s Friday night, midterms begin in a week, your day has been an arduous one if any and nothing would appease your restlessness more than having cold beers at the local brass with all the guys. Where the plan commences in a different route is when those phone calls are responded with listless souls on the other end that depict a day that has been comprised of studious hardships and is nowhere near its end. You are dismayed, of course, but you’ve a call list that has yet to be exhausted, and eventually you collect a group of guys who always know how to prevent the night from ending too early. The beers get going, and all the classic laughable stories are told as the cards are dealt, yet you recall a notable moment in your day when your professor and class got into a good debate on whether, or not, Thoreau is an archetype of self-actualization experiences, and how the discussion ended with Thoreau being considered a pseudo-hermit, since he’d have cookies over at Emerson’s on Fridays. You begin to tell the story, then stop to expound on self-actualization, which is ambiguous enough with a background, and then as you still have to elaborate on who Emerson and Thoreau are, that excited pace you originally had dims, and your once worthy story is answered with a cold lack of appreciation.

I get it, and I know there are groups of friends appropriate for different occasions and moods, but when (actually happened) someone uses “interpret” in a sentence and the group turns to them and notes the big word and their “book-learning” adeptness, you can’t help but wish there was less of a distinguishing chasm between those groups.

Is it up to someone to get others intrinsically motivated enough that they all will be savvy on similar world topics, or should they just keep a part of them at bay at appropriate times? I realized that if I’m going to have both types of friends, then there shouldn’t just be this observer that controls me, but it’s up to me to make everyone feel comfortable, have the conversation flow back and forth evenly and colloquially if necessary because at the end of the day, variety, my friend, is sexy.

-Swank