Privileged

It’s hard to recognise our privilege because we always take so many things for granted. Simply being able to read this post, while sitting in a first-world country, is by far the greatest privilege that we all have. Beyond this ignorance of living in the developed world there are so many smaller privileges that aren’t as obviously recognised and recently a wise random made me realise some I had.

Friendship Part 3 – Sentimentalism

The logic goes that as most of us, to some extent like ourselves, we tend to find our own traits desirable in others and so it is no surprise that we would seek such in our friendships . From experience though, the opposite can also hold true - someone too similar can be a cause for rivalry and hatred. In any case, sentimentalism is one of those values that I hold dear. I treasure most insignificant events as memories and hold on to them, maintaining my very own “boxes of memories” – scraps and bits from many events, scraps even as useless as old receipts or transport tickets.

Get Lucky

So if there's one phrase uttered more than any other between the messes and ramblings of stressed university students during this period of reflection, it would have to be "good luck". Good luck remembering the dribble you somehow learnt thirteen weeks ago. Good luck proving to the university that you know things even if you can't prove yourself with an open book in front of your eyes. Good luck to all those who are in the progress of questioning life itself, when existence seems like 300 pages of readings that were expected weeks ago.

Friendship Part 2 – Idealism

So now with geographical convenience out of the way, we can truly see who puts effort in to see us and vice versa, but where does this effort arise from. Why is it that we put effort into some and none into others? This is where differences between people come into play. This is, essentially, what makes you like someone. For me, one of the most important criteria is idealism. By idealism I simply mean the ability to think and discuss big.