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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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Association by mutual benefit
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Something rather interesting happened to me today. I took my
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rollerblades back to the store from where I had purchased them, they
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needed a minor repair. As I stood by the counter waiting for someone to
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serve me, a young man walked up to me and asked whether I was Mike. I
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was taken back for a moment... there was something familiar about the
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face but I couldn't place it. Obviously I replied yes. It turned out
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that this person was someone that had gone to the same highschool as me
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6 years ago.
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So what was so interesting about that besides a pleasant surprise? Well,
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this individual I had hardly considered a friend. Sure I knew his name,
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but that was because he was loosely connected with the "cool" people
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because of his drug use, and total lack of interest in school.
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What really got me was the fact that he had remember who I was. I
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remember many people from those early years, in fact I was quite
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impressed with how many names, both first and last, that I could
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recollect. I could name off tens of people, people that I knew
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well or barely at all, people that I will probably never see again.
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Jean-Paul happened to belong to one of the latter group, or so I
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thought. It was this occurance that made me think about the meaning of
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friendship... just what exactly does it mean nowadays?
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I used to have a friend, Andrew, we both had gone to the same junior
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school and the same highschool for 2 years. In total we had been good
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friends for 8 years, going camping together, going to the same parties,
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always sitting beside each other in class. We both considered each
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other to be our "best friend", the idea of ever parting ways never
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crossed our minds. I had always admired Andrew for his natural gift for
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mathematics. Out partying, drinking, doing drugs, or just hanging out
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never seemed to impair his ability of pulling off excellent marks.
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I had him pinned as going far in life, and enjoying life at the same
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time. Him and I weren't going to be one of those people that screwed
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around in school when young, and only live to regret it as we grew
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older. I was wrong. Needless to say I did not share Andrew's
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gift. I was a poor student, and only after failing to get good marks
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after yet another year my mother transferred me to another school. It
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was at this time that Andrew just started to fade away. We no longer
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hung out, played hackie-sack, or just talked. In all honestly I
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have to admit this came as a surprise. How is it possible that someone
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you have know for 8 years, day to day, could just disappear so easily.
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Our friendship seemed to have endured so much for so long... yet it
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took nothing but a few weeks of separation to severe all ties.
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This is what has made me really wonder what true friendship is. All
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those people in my past that I spent so much time with, all those people
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that I considered "friends" or were they? Does the word, "acquaintance"
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truly describe what we mean when we say "friend" nowadays?
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I wonder if this consumer related society that we live in has invaded
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our own way of living... I guess its a stupid question. Of course it
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has. After all we are the product of our environment. Maybe just as we
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have learnt that you use something and then throw it away has filtered
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through to the way we interact with each other. A friendship
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is only maintained as long as minimal effort is required and we benefit
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from it. I doubt that it can be argued that friendships are beneficial.
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Its nice to have someone to talk to, someone that you can ask favors of
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or someone that you can hang out with when there's nothing else to do.
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But friendships become more demanding when one has to make an effort to
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stay in contact with someone, either by phoning or going out of your way
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to see them. This is probably the true test of friendship. If time and
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distance grow long and the bond remains intact... well then maybe you
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two share a friendship and not an acquaintance of mutual benefit.
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I was able to talk with Jean-Paul for about 10 minutes before the
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assistant came back. Within that time I had learnt that he had plans of
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going off to university this coming year, and drugs were no longer
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controlling his life. While talking to him there was one thing that
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struck me, his eyes. He was the kind of person that could talk to
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you and look you straight in the eye. I don't know what it was... but
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just from those few minutes I thought as friends we would have really
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gotten along. While leaving the store I felt happy that Jean-Paul was
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finally finding some direction in his life. I wish him well.
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As for Andrew.. well he has been kicked out of university. Many of his
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roommates have moved out because he has no respect for others, basically
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he's a slob. What's he doing with his time? Well apparently growing pot
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in his apartment to make money.
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Sometimes you really can live such a carefree life... but reality has a
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way of reminding us that the good times can't go on forever.
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Inner^Kry
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11/Jul/98
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