-This Business of Seriousness

When so much can happen in such little time and everything can move so fast
that you don’t even realize just how fast you are going down the rabbit role, one should be careful. Social circles, that is such a stupid name for them, they are more like social holes. Very similar to rabbit roles. Or more like hills. Social circles are more like downward slopes covered in ice and then sealed over in petroleum jelly. Once you are on it, there is no getting off; but if you hang on to the right persons hand it can end up being a ride and not a terror. The question is: are you slipping without grace or sliding without a care. Nothing is taken lightly anymore. Nothing is casual anymore. Even casual Friday has been morphed into just another way to out do each other. Everything is jam packed, full to the brim, overflowing with action and intent. Our daily lives have more explosions, chases, heartbreaks, and cliff hangers then the love child of a Jason Statham action movie and “Gossip Girl”. Seriously, this stuff couldn’t be written if we tried. No one could ever try to record and pay attention to everything that goes on inside of the coveted social slope. No two people are ever on the same level and no two people are ever seeing things in the same way. I do believe in closeness, truth and confidentiality among friends, but we are twentysomethings and eventually it always comes out. The truth, the real intentions, the story behind what was said and the seriousness of the moment; it will always be made known.
Love is serious. Friendship is serious. Family is serious. School is serious. Work is serious. Sex is serious. Truth is serious. We are very serious people. Even when it comes to the little things, we either ignore the full extent of what is going on or blow them up and make them bigger. The only thing around here that is light is the cream cheese on your breakfast bagel while you rethink what happened the night before, the sun shining through the classroom window while you try to process what is going on in your life, and the beer you drink at the end of the day to try and cope and escape from all the seriousness. If you want light, or get some crappy ice cream substitute. This is seriousness business; but we have good intentions some of the time. We tend to be serious about who we love the most, because love is the craziest force known to man, it kind of makes Amy Winehouse look like Little House on the Prairie. And we are very serious about who we call friend and who is trying to be friends with our already established friends. Friends are the ones who are there after the love goes south, so we tend to protect them like gold found in the west. Our family business grows even more serious the farther away we get because we aren’t there to deal with it. Apparently school work is serious too, but I’m really not the authority on that. Work is serious because it gives us money, and money leads us to higher levels of freedom and, unfortunately, higher levels of seriousness. Sex is the most serious of them all, except love but love should really be a part of sex. Sometimes is takes a lot of times before we realize sex is serious; like I said nothing is casual, even the condom box says it’s for serious screwing. Truth is the silent serious, because we never like to speak about it. And on rare occasions when someone does talk about it, they get shushed. Truth is a serious, silent thing; kind of like social cancer, it just hits without any warning.
This is a very serious world, where very serious things happen every day. There is no time off or sick day when it comes to the soberness of every day life. Just try to make sure you are holding the right peoples hands, and that you have a smile on your face because this is seriously never going to stop.