Day Two: Gwen

You know what's hard? Finding out your best friend is having a really bad day when you're having a great day. It makes me feel guilty...but I'm still having a great day. Here I sit on my comfortable bed, watching the Food Network and writing this, while she sits in her room, trying to not be distracted by the various Disney stimuli while attempting to write two large papers due tomorrow. I feel bad...but then again, I don't. I would have planned my time differently, or so I think, but to be fair, I wasn't actually in the circumstance. However, I do know when I need to buckle down and get work done, and I know how to make my environment conducive to that situation. Unfortunately, she has not mastered that skill yet.

This is my best friend: Gwendolyn, commonly referred to as Gwen, Gwenny, and/or Gwendolina (but only on very special occasions). We first met approximately one year ago. Since that time, we have, believe it or not, become extraordinarily close. We have just enough in common that we don't drive each other crazy, and still have maintained circles of friends outside of just us. It is virtually the perfect situation.

However, as I eluded to briefly, there are some things which we both have not mastered in our lives. This has begun to pose a problem. When you get to know someone on such a deep level, you begin to see the finer points of their personality. I think the thing that bothers me most is that I believed that we would never find things in each other that would bother each other. And what's worse is that you can't just come out to the person and say "That bothers me. Can you not do that?" because a lot of times it's not a bad or disruptive behavior, it's just something that's ridiculously annoying.

Maybe it's a ridiculous notion. Maybe it's completely selfish or judgmental of me to say things like that. What is the right answer?