Was having a conversation with a friend. And we were talking about friendships and people. And we both agreed that some individuals just want to be recognized and respected they love jumping on the fast track to what they define as stardom (popularity) and what I would define as a desperate streak that requires attention. Question being, will those people give the same amount of attention back. Or will giving back this attention renegotiate their popularity and place them in the same basket as all previous attention givers, thus leading to this feeling that if attention and love is given back, then there's no sense of superiority to be taken away? (My intention here is to confuse, and by doing so filter out the people who are not seriously thinking about this issue further. Doesn't take a genius to figure out, after all in this case, all you have to do is think with your heart, not that agenda-laden thing we call the brain.) Conversely I would say that maybe these people will not realize that there's a hegemonic discourse on their behavior on what shit heads they can be, or how selfish people conceive of them.

I have this concept, whereby who ever can benefit them (shit heads) in that fleeting moment would be considered a "friend", and I use this term "friend" very loosely. But we should all realize that your friends are those who you know you cannot get benefits from (or if it doesn't matter to you), but you still stick with them, vice-versa. Ultimately, what you gain is not quantifiable in that narrow sense. Yes this methodology of thinking is way over-played and over-used, but there's a reason for this. Cause its true. And truth never gets tired.

To quote my friend,
"e story tt a rich man organise parties for all his friends... den one day, he wanted to test his friends, so he told em tt this will be e last party cause he has no more money... So, he needs to borrow money from them... but, one by one, they all walked away, only 2-3 friends stayed back to talk to him... tts when he knew who he's true friends were... so, moral of e story is... true friends r there to help u, they r no there to just benefit from u."

To quote me,
"where you get this lame story from sia, sounds like a bad bed time story for educating"

Friend: Well its about morals. Me: .. or a lack thereof.

So spend about 30 seconds to think about how badly you have been treating your peers, family and yourself.

Deon