atrocityland

You're the kind of person I wish I could become good friends with, because you're just so accepting and chill. I do know that you're always open for a chat, but I am so very shy, especially because I admire you so much.

First off- I’m so flattered, seriously!

Messages like this, however, kind of bums me out; there have been people who email/PM me and say “I would love to be friends with you, we seem to have so much in common!” and I’m all excited because I’m like “Aww yeah! I love meeting new people!” and so I give them my IM name and then…never hear back from them. So I figure “Okay, they’re shy, I’ll send them another message because it’d still be pretty awesome to talk to someone who I have things in common with,” and send them another note…and never hear back from them. And finally, I just give up, because it starts to make me feel like maybe they weren’t interested in me in the first place, and that sort of sucks.

It’s like…trust me, I know what it’s like to be shy, but look at it from my perspective:

Let’s say you meet someone who says “I like to make cake for people, I bet I could make some for you sometime.” And you get excited because you in fact love cake. But then they say “but I’m too nervous to give people the cake I make.” And then you sit there and you’re just like, “well damn.” because maybe it’s pretty awesome cake, and they’ve already gotten your hopes up for cake, and then you realize that you’re never going to get cake, and it’s such a downer.

Friendship is like cake.

And I like eating me some motherfuckin’ cake.