As more and more people decline to come to an event that is important to me, I think back on all the times I said no to invites from others. And there were a lot of times when I backed out. It's such a battle to get myself up and going when it comes to somebody else's thing. And indeed a fight to get others to jump for my things.
So I wonder, is it my peer group? Twenty and thirty-somethings who are busy trying to build their careers and find soul mates and pop out children? Are we self-involved and overly busy because we're of the right age to be so? Or is it this generation? Is it the MySpace-driven era of tech buddies where face time falls by the wayside?
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I've thought about this before, and I always think of Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the book, he's about to do something but then stops, because he's not in the mood. That's the way I feel. It's not that I don't want to see friends or whatever, but I have to be in the right mood. Like food. I have to be in the right mood to eat Mexican, BBQ, Italian. Sometimes I'll tell someone that I'll meet them to do something and when the day finally comes, I tend to find myself not in the mood.
Is it an age-thing? I don't know, perhaps. Seriously, just about 15 minutes ago I was fixing my bed and I was thinking, "this sucks... it's Friday night and I'm cleaning my room." Some people may be too self-involved and into their own thing, but we're all grown up and we know what are wants and needs are, and since peer pressure doesn't have a strangle hold on us, it's easy to skip out on events.
You're right Jose, it takes the right mood to go out with people. Perhaps it's not an age group thing or a generation thing. Maybe it's just a matter of inspiration.
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