Do we still have a group?
**This started as a comment to Ashley's post. If you haven't read it already stop now and go there this instant.**We are a decomposing group. Nights go by and we dont do anything collectively. Can anyone honestly remember hanging out all together somewhere and just watching a movie or playing a game? We havent. We aren't all that busy. Even the archies do have some free time.
The sadest and happiest day this year was Ashley's birthday. We all got together. New R-Dubbers like Gregg and Megan, the not so new R-Dubbers like Kevin, Ricky, and Andrew, and of course the veteran R-Dubbers like Steve, Erin, Jenn, Jena, Ashley and myself. It was great, yet depressing because it took until April 23 to get everyone together for the first time this year. Now that my friends, is sad. Whatever happened to staying up until 4:00 in the morning on Friday nights/saturday mornings? What ever happened to hanging out in common rooms? Or in someone's room?
We are a decomposing group, and we need to do something about it. Ashley and I are both guilty as well. We have spent a lot more time alone this year. Mostly due to the evolution of our relationship, but also because, we arent doing anything else anyways.
What needs to happen is a call to arms. We are in need of everyone's help here. We may indeed be "puddle people" and let you back in, but people change and if you aren't there to see the changes, you are missing out an may never catch up. I am not asking for much people. We need to have pride in our group. It means something! We are a great group of people and we deserve to stick this out and become the kick ass group we once were!
Everyone needs to step up the effort if we want to make this group work. Myself included. Now i don't know about you guys, but i am in. I want this to work and i am willing to give it my all to get this group back on track. I want to hang out more. I wanna sit around and talk until the wee hours of the morning. I want to go to providence just cuz. I want to go to Paw Sox games. I wanna sit around and watch a movie and eat take out food. I want us to party as a group! Be like it once was again. Before it's too late.
So there you have it! WHO'S IN WITH ME!!!!!!
posted by Greg @ 12:12 AM
1 Comments:
first of all i hardly ever post on these because i feel that things should be said in person and descused, and secondly because i suck at writting, but i feel that i should say something. Now i know that i have just recently started hanging out with the group this year so maybe i dont have the best perspective of this but maybe its a little better because of it. personaly i enjoyed hanging out with everyone because i feel so comfortable with each and every one of you. realisticly guys everyone does have free time u are right (even us archies) and i know that i have tried to hang out with everyone but count up everyone in the group and try to peice together amounts of free time and the times u get aren't that much or for that long...and stuff happens, people get sick, people sometimes just dont feel like hanging out. realisticly a group is not one whole entity but many groups that are tied together by the fact that they can hang out as a whole and have fun. i know that u did that a lot last year but that was also freshmen year of college and you were all new friends with granted easier schedules then u have this year. as a group of friends evolves the great thing about it is that we can hang out in smaller groups when time allows and sometimes some people have more time then others. the fact that everyone in the "collection" (refusing of calling it a group because that word i feel has been over used) still does at times hang out with others in the group even though less then before is what makes it GREAT. not that we have to get everyone together all the time or it will fail and we will all end up hating eachother. to be frank, and im sorry i dont mean to offend but to try too hard is what will make the "group" fall apart. people will feel like they failed if they cant hang out when everyone else does and trust me things like that make some people the next time maybe choose that they just dont want to hang out. the great thing that i feel in love with about everyone mentioned in the posts before this (and this might as well be one but i dont have a blog) is the flexibility of it and always feeling welcome, it made me want to make time to hang out, i dont like feeling pressure that i have to, it makes it not as fun. this is harsh and i doubt anyone spent the time to read it but i hope someone might and post it under their blog as a new post under my name. sorry to be blunt i just feel like all the peranoia is a little over excessive. just my opinion, feel free to object or dispute me, or dislike me for it but i hope u can read it with an open mind and take something from it.
love to everyone,
ricky
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