Saturday, October 18, 2008

Socially Starved While Never Alone

Despite both being brown haired graduates of UC Santa Cruz's Film program Gabriel and I are fundamentally different people. Evidence:

  1. We do not share the same atoms.
  2. Gabriel's hair is curly, while mine is floppy.
  3. I get anxious in solitude while Gabriel craves it.
We find ourselves in an interesting position, we spend over 12hrs a day with each other. We are both experiencing social anxiety for different reasons. He, because there's no escaping social interaction. Me, because I don't find myself in a variety of different social circles with regularity.

Please note: Gabriel and I are getting along swimmingly. No drama, no attempted strangling, and our friendship remains intact.

At home, I have different friends for different activities, and many days where multiple activities are planned. If the interval between conversational partners grows too long I find myself in a glum state of mind. To illustrate: I once attended a party in college wearing a pair of wings - I was... wait for it... A social butterfly. At first I thought I was wearing the costume ironically, it wasn't until I catalogued the events of the evening to myself later that night that I realized that the costume had been worn in earnest.

Moral of the story: I was quite happy to be shooting scenes with Scott today.

2 comments:

Prince Gomolvilas said...

Thanks for the update, Gabriel. Er, I mean, Jake. Er, I mean, Will. Er, I mean...which one are you again?

Unknown said...

I totally understand your situation, especially knowing you so well... I'm so sorry I couldn't help by actually answering the strange number on my phone the other morning. When I listened to your message and heard your voice I was so excited ((and angry with myself for not picking up...)) I miss you and am so excited for you and you should keep trying to call me because I want to talk!