Retrospectively.

Five years ago, or even two, I don't think I would've been able to hold a straight face and chat about our lives so casually. Granted, there are reservations on what we speak about, but its not longer, "ewww gross!!" as a response to when talk about boys (although I don't think that was ever the case), or "omgomgomg like omg omg!!" to some outrageous thing someone says (once again, this is an exaggeration). In our old age, it seems we just kind of have that "sigh...again?" kind of reaction to a lot of things.

That was really broad, but details would give too much about the people away. So I'll just go off on a tangent about sex. I never got the sex talk from my parents, thank god. But I was never not told about the birds and the bees. Point is, I was raised very much by my friends, it really is kind of funny now that I think about it. In this sense, six or seven years ago, it was a forbidden topic. Everything was kept hush hush, and when something slipped out, there were giggles and whispers even the most oblivous person would notice. Now, its just "sex talks" over coffee or lunch or dinner. Strangely though, I am still the observer, I don't talk much about myself unless necessary, but in this case, what happens in the bedroom stays there.

Tangent again. Along with this openness in discussing such personal details comes the fact that there isn't as much gossip anymore either. Very rarely do I hear people (my friends at least) gossip about others. I mean, there still is talk about other people, but most of it is speculation, but there's no more meaningless rumors.

I don't know where this is going, I'm super tired. Also, I just realized I only blog about once a month. Not intentionally, but there's never a solid block of time for me to sit down and write something. Granted, it took me all of 10 minutes to write this, and I will most likely not read this ever again, but whenever I have deep thoughtful things that need to be put on paper, I usually don't realize it unless I'm walking or about to fall asleep.