Things To Do Before You're 30 Part 4 By Sarah Tomlinson

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Friends. Don't you just love them? I mean they really rock don't they?! Or do they? I have my very own collection of fantastic friends, in and out of work. I have that kind of pattern-randomness with mine where I am like best friends with one friend for a week, then that cools off while I'm a best friend with someone else. And I started to wonder if that was the way to live. To not get to attached to anyone in life incase you have to cut your losses at some point in life. Depressing thought I know, but it just popped into my head fairly randomly.

Of course, there is the constant best friend, I have one of those and she rocks. She's the one I know. The one I can tell anything too, well, she's my best friend. My Point?

I had a little mishap, I fell in like with a guy. We got on really well; really, really well. And I kind of thought too much of it, and being the nutter that I am went and did something really stupid. I'll leave the end of that to your imagination of me thinking too much of things. But for a brief moment in time, he liked someone else the way I thought he liked me. I saw, he found out I liked him and all went silent between us (this is the short version).

A good friend got us together to talk to each other about a certain incident and we managed to fix things. Still..My point?

We're better friends now than we ever have been, and it's so much better than anything I could have imagined (and I can imagine a lot). But the thing is, I always do this, wreck things before they even start. Do men do it too? Or am I the only person on the face of 'ull to actually seem to act so desperate when I'm not?

Or is it just a pheromone thing? Who knows? I guess the moral of the story is, talking is more than awkward silences. Don't be scared of it, I'm not anymore and I guess it can actually make things better.

You know, Hull is a great place to have friends. You can shop together, drink together and eat together. Have you ever, on a really nice day, gone to the chippy and just sat on Queens' Gardens? How fantastic a few hours is that!? That's where you actually see that your friends are friends. Sit, eat, and just sprawl. I know 90% of Hullians have done it, but if you haven't, just do it. As McD's would say, I'm lovin' it.

Thing to do before you're 30: Really, really get something off your chest.

So this week's, thing to do before you're 30 is... Try something really new.

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