everyone always says, "i have the greatest friends in the world!" does anyone ever do the opposite? come right out and say that their friends suck? or even if they think their friends suck, do they admit it? i suppose it would be much simpler, if indeed we hated all our friends, to just say, "i have no friends. stop bugging me." do people ever wish for a whole new set of friends? like trade all of them in, lock stock and barrel, for a totally different crowd? one that seems possibly more fun or more interesting? or i guess, in weird cases, less fun and less interesting? this is a phenomenon that needs to be explored.



what if you feel like your friends are flawed, or not good enough? and dammnit, just not worthy of being your friends? do you consciously start going out to gather new ones? and then slowly slip away to hang out with them while leaving your old friends to listen to your voicemail greeting? does anybody do this? or know anybody that does?



or maybe we all just think we have the greatest friends in the world because if we didn't, wouldn't that reflect really poorly on ourselves? i mean, it's cool if you don't have many friends you like in middle school, but by the time you hit post-college, if you still don't like your friends all that much, don't you have to entertain the possibility that the problem is possibly you?