Miscellaneous Post 1

I'd like to dedicate this blog post to my friend Rachael.

Three years ago this April, I was bored at 2AM, goofing off on the random chat site Omegle when I ended up in a chat with this person who said she was a fourteen year old girl. She linked me to her Myspace account after a while. I didn't believe her when she said that she was fourteen, but that wouldn't be important at the time. She looked, typed, conversed like someone who was older. Contrary to the usual workings of Omegle, we kept talking. She was funny and completely atypical compared to the people I went to school with who were her age. She talked about anime and photography, music and her family life. This was a wonderful change of pace. I was getting more and more tired of the people I went to school with and how they talked about who was dating who, or who had the fanciest phone and the nicest car in the school. I had found a girl who didn't care about any of that. She just wanted to watch anime and take cute pictures of her cats, and when we talked it was about our lives, not the lives of others.
A day turned into a week, a week turned into a month. We kept talking. I had talked to a girl I found on Omegle for a couple months before I started talking to Rachael, but the first girl seemingly disappeared one day, and I wouldn't talk to her again for another three years. Rachael was different though. She didn't disappear. After a while of talking to her, I noticed how very keen and sensible Rachael was. That is in part why I'm writing this blog post about her. Despite how she originally appeared to rather read manga and play video games than do anything school related, I would come home, do whatever homework I may have had, and then if I had time, get on Facebook to talk to her. Gradually, she began paying more attention to schoolwork and I began paying more attention to Netflix. I started talking to her more about my social life and she came out with very direct observations and solutions to my problems. This blog is one of them.
When I told Rachael that I had a 41 blogs due in seven hours, she told me to stop talking to her and to go write up my blog posts. A small example out of many, I took her advice. I've found that in three years, her advice is usually the right advice despite the three-year age difference. I guess age doesn't always equate to wisdom in my case.
Thanks for occasionally whipping me into shape Rachael. Sometimes I'm just too dense and stubborn to do it myself.