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I must weigh into this argument! 

50yearslate said
AH! My HEART! I will acknowledge that white chocolate definitely should not qualify as chocolate but I find it delicious THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I don’t think I’d choose it over milk chocolate, and I prefer some dark chocolate, but it’s much better than the really dark stuff. Either way it’s very good.

  

I pretty much agree with Fiddy on this one. I used to HATE dark chocolate, but now I can appreciate its contribution to the world. I also have much less of a tolerance for sugar as I’ve gotten older, so my opinion of white chocolate has gone down somewhat. That being said, milk chocolate is still my favorite, and that’ll probably be the case for the foreseeable future.

lovelyritametermaid said

If you think this is amusing you should see the hour-long texting argument I had with my friend last night on whether or not my texts can come across as sarcastic (it’s very hard to explain but it was a very stupid argument with a stupid premise. Long story short, I called something he did “cute,” but like it was meant to be snarky, but he didn’t find it snarky and he thought I was genuinely calling him cute and then I pointed out the fact that I was being snarky and he said I really wasn’t and then the argument began all because tone is something that is hard to control in a text message convo. 

I hate how much I relate to that. I’m currently rebuilding an old friendship that fell apart last year, and one of the most stupid things we’d argue about was how we texted with each other (which we did pretty much every day–I’m pretty intense about the whole friendship thing). Texting is such a double-edged sword, especially in friendships that have endemic miscommunication

Apologies for misinterpreting that, @Beatlebug . That makes a lot of sense. That’s what I do these days as well. Now that I’m out of college, it’s a lot easier to see who is an actual close friend and who was just someone I hung out with in college (I went to a pretty tiny school, so I knew a lot of people there). 

lovelyritametermaid said

I also have friends who I like to hang out with but who I don’t rank as one of my super close friends because I don’t fully put my trust into them/they haven’t proven to be loyal to me (that sounds super weird but its the truth) 

I guess it sounds weird, but I think it makes total sense. Trusting someone is risky. The person I’m currently rebuilding my friendship with (let’s call her C, since I seem to be bringing her up a lot) definitely lost my trust, and I feel like I’ve been kind of over-eager to get back into that friendship and need to be careful with her. But I can’t help it that I missed her like hell for the last whole year, can I? (Sorry if I’m coming off as a little dramatic, my emotions have been all over the place for some time now).

50yearslate said
I like friends but they’re so stressful to have sometimes. Generally I have acquaintances, casual friends, and very close friends, but I basically worship my very close friends and so I’m constantly scared that they don’t consider me as close a friend as I consider them or that they think I’m annoying or clingy, and those thoughts of course just make me more annoying and clingy. That said, my very close friends are always worth the anguish. 

  

I feel for you, Fiddy. I suffer from anxiety and depression, and one of its worst and most frequent manifestations is basically a really bad version of what you’re describing. The hilarious thing is that most of my friends have struggled at least as much, if not more, than I have with their own mental health, which often just makes me feel worse about reaching out to people and what not. I’ve begun to make rules for myself, e.g. don’t feel bad for reaching out or sharing with friends, don’t invalidate my own experience, communicate clearly with all my friends, etc. etc. So far I think it’s working, but we’ll see.