Dorian Gray And Friend
Jan. 30th, 2005 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI was trawling the lj universe haphazardly and came across the journal of a guy I last spoke to ten years ago. It was kinda scary. If his icon's to be believed he doesn't look a day older. He's still in the same job. And he's still banging on about medieval Hungary in the same pompous, mock-Edwardian prose.
No surprises. I wonder if he would feel the same if he found my journal. Huh, Tony Grist- same old same-old.
I hope not.
From Chris's journal it was a short hop to Dave's. Dave's user-name is ****-the-twat. He's still as self-hating as he ever was, but now the anger is finding an outlet in paki-bashing nationalism. And he's still chasing teenage goth girls- which was iffy when he was twenty eight and is now downright inappropriate.
I was fond of him. He was a mess the way a puppy of one of the larger breeds of dog is a mess. He had a good heart. It's a shame to see him sink. Life is a tricky business. Some people develop effective strategies for getting through it without sustaining too much damage and others don't.
My first instinct was to give these blokes a cheery wave, but they live too close to home- and I don't want either of them back in my life.
No surprises. I wonder if he would feel the same if he found my journal. Huh, Tony Grist- same old same-old.
I hope not.
From Chris's journal it was a short hop to Dave's. Dave's user-name is ****-the-twat. He's still as self-hating as he ever was, but now the anger is finding an outlet in paki-bashing nationalism. And he's still chasing teenage goth girls- which was iffy when he was twenty eight and is now downright inappropriate.
I was fond of him. He was a mess the way a puppy of one of the larger breeds of dog is a mess. He had a good heart. It's a shame to see him sink. Life is a tricky business. Some people develop effective strategies for getting through it without sustaining too much damage and others don't.
My first instinct was to give these blokes a cheery wave, but they live too close to home- and I don't want either of them back in my life.
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Date: 2005-01-30 04:30 am (UTC)I had no glory days, just some times that were quite nice when they were happening and which I can look back on and say, "My god, I'm glad I survived without too many scars and yeah, that was pretty cool", but I sure as hell wouldn't want to go back and do THAT again, so yes, if you ever wax nostalgic to that extreme, I'll make a special trip to the UK, hunt you down and whack you royally.
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Date: 2005-01-30 05:10 am (UTC)