I mean, I didn't really expect her to sign off abruptly (though I would have laughed if she had), but I do think she is overestimating her openness. If I had told her in high school, I expect I would have gotten the same "we're still close" speech, and then I simply would have stopped getting invitations to sleep over. Or hang out. Or hear secrets. And then it would have turned into the sort of thing where if you walk up, everyone stops talking, or people just happened to forget to save a seat at the table. Which is why I never came out to them, but I truly didn't resent it terribly; I always knew I was making that sort of deal-with-the-devil bargain, that I could keep my place in the clique as long as I kept certain secrets.
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Date: 2006-11-17 02:38 am (UTC)I mean, I didn't really expect her to sign off abruptly (though I would have laughed if she had), but I do think she is overestimating her openness. If I had told her in high school, I expect I would have gotten the same "we're still close" speech, and then I simply would have stopped getting invitations to sleep over. Or hang out. Or hear secrets. And then it would have turned into the sort of thing where if you walk up, everyone stops talking, or people just happened to forget to save a seat at the table. Which is why I never came out to them, but I truly didn't resent it terribly; I always knew I was making that sort of deal-with-the-devil bargain, that I could keep my place in the clique as long as I kept certain secrets.