Monday, January 11, 2010

gather and mingle

i'm writing slow today as i got engulfed into the wonderful world of you tube, immersing myself in a poetic wedding video and a few past episodes of a charming sitcom. for a while, i forgot i have to venture outside my realm and explore the icy surroundings and look for presents for the birthday girls.

as i was invited to a soiree a while ago, my foremost musings are veered towards convivial bearings. navigating at parties has never been my paramount bliss. it's demoralizing being trapped in a place full of strangers and knowing only the hosts or not even the hosts and you're merely a hanger-on or a date. let's see, the hosts have their other friends and close associates while you're from one network of friends or colleagues and you get there and you find out that you're the only one from your branch of the tree, and it descends into full discomfiture on your part. it's better to find solace in a buffer at this stage. the situation of feeling like a total stranger in roomful of people is strenuous. i know, at some sphere in our lives, there's a time we have to widen our social dimension and meet new people. who knows, they may enhance our redeeming features or they may turn out to be galling and obnoxious and you're cursing fate for having been caught in a complicated plight.

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