OMG

A few months ago, when I bought a friend down from my uni to Melbourne, I wanted to take her out with some of my friends from home. What I forgot was the fact that I had completely bitched about this uni friend right at the start of the year to my friends at home. This was a time when I was feeling homesick, and everyone I was meeting seemed really shallow and was not 'friend material'. I like things to stay the same, so being thrown in a new location with new people, I was so socially awkward to the point that it was humiliating. I was also feeling pretty sorry for myself for those first few weeks.

This uni friend in particular that I was to eventually bring home with me, had pretty much been on the very bottom of my mental Friend List; she seemed like this gigantic douche, and made these (probably unintentional, now that I know her well enough) insulting comments, e.g. we were talking about what schools we went to, and she and another friend went to private ones. Upon telling them that I went to a Catholic one, and she felt it necessary to comment, 'when my dad first came to Australia, and because he was really poor, he had to go to a Catholic school'. Right. These kids were all rich too...and liked to make that well known. (Also, over the year I noticed that the richer the person was, the more cheap they were ironically enough). So yeah. I thought they were complete idiots.... but then I got to know them I suppose. I guessed later on that because it was First Year, and cause no one knew anyone, people blasted their personalities about one hundred times louder then usual to try to fit in. That could probably go for me too- I was about one million times quieter, trying to make myself scarce with the hope that I wouldn't make a dick out of myself.

Yeah so, to get to the point, I had completely forgotten that I had said crap about her. When we were in Melbourne, and we were going out, one of my Melbourne friends was distinctly cold towards her. I don't think my uni friend noticed but I did, and couldn't figure out why until my home friend asked me (as well as my sister), 'why did you bring her home? Didn't you hate her at the start?'. It was pretty strange to see her so cold and haughty to someone she'd never met, cause she's one of those people who is really warm (sometimes irritatingly so) to strangers, and new people.

Moral of long and convoluted blogpost (and a resolution this year): Stop being so quick to judge (and insult) people. Sorry people for this ridiculous blog. I got halfway and realised it was too late to turn back...so I continued.