Delayed Connections & Chinese Reactions

So finals are finally over--and so is my academic career.  Well, perhaps not that drastic, but you wouldn't pay attention if I didn't exagerate a tid bit.

Seeing as I don't have school until late September, the next month and a half leaves me with many options to unappeal to me.  However, there are a few that I'd like to embrace, given that I have the time now.

I'd like to tickle the piano again, although I'm not allotted much space in my baked room; I'll figure out a way.  I was never too good at it, but enough to quench my abrupt instrumental thirsts. 

After a bit of tinkering with a friend's guitar, I've also decided to borrow father's guitar the next chance I get and hopefully teach myself.  It's been said that the piano is harder to learn than the guitar, so perhaps I have an advantage then.

I suppose the upcoming free time will mainly be devoted to fulfilling my dormant artistic muse.  I'd like to utilize my sketchbook a bit more and put the dust gathering canvas under my bed to good use.  I never took the time to perfect my painting strokes, but I suppose now's the time to try to.

Now that my first weekend of freedom from responsibility comes to a fading end--I thought I'd take the time to step back and reflect upon where I stand at this point in my life, specificaly about my life in Besaid.

I'm approaching the midpoint of this chapter in my life, ideally that is, so I think that the plot development and important characters and their roles are worth mentioning.

When it comes to befriending someone, I never felt quite adequate at it--often depending on pure chance and the ties between friends of friends rather than my ability to introduce myself.  When I think about it however, I'm rather comfortable having not met as many people, but instead am grateful for the quality of my friends over the quantity.  With that said, this post was inspired by a select few people that have reminded me of what is to be a friend, the lengths you'll go to, and the moments and things you'll come to understand of that person--and ultimately yourself.

There were things that I had never imagined I'd go through with Terra--so now that it's been said and done, it bewilders me to find where we stand in each other's lives.  What were once annoyances are now commonalities that I've come to accept of her.  Perhaps I didn't even know it myself, the depth of my understanding of her that is--it's almost as if I could write a book about her... It wasn't until this past week that she pointed it out to me--while it surprises her as well, it seems like it's something we're both glad and willing to accept.  While it's natural to reciprocality wonder just how well she knows me; measurements are unncessary as I think that it'll be proven when the time calls for it.

While it may have taken two years for Terra and I to reach this stage in our friendship, my new found friendship with Rikku puzzles me even more so.  It was only April that I met her, yet the immense information that I've divulged to her baffles me sometimes.  It's coincidences like these that makes me question the trend of favorable Chinese women in my life.  From Rinoa, Haro, Lu², Irvine & now Rikku--can this Chinese connection really just be a coincidence?  The world may never know.

I suppose what allows me to open up to Rikku is her sense of sincerety and her genuine interest to listen to my story.  She listens so much that it even bothers me at times, as I feel a teetering sense of imbalance.  Even so, I wouldn't forcefully have her open up to me--it's something that will come with time for her, I suspect.  I thoroughly enjoy our conversations as she ceases to amuse me (as well as laugh at my irregularities).

Within the past 3 days, I had spent more time at Rikku's than I did at my own.  Seeing as everyone pursued a justified urge to go home after finals, we decided to keep each other company.  We became part-time insomniacs to past the time, but to be honest, I don't really know how we wasted so much time doin' nothing.  But then again, it seems to be what I specialize in.  All I can really recall is a lot of eating, talking, and sleeping, with a movie or two in between.  We didn't sleep till the sun came up, but managed to wake up before the sun went down.  While we were just slummin' it at her place for a good two thirds, we got around to watching the coolest movie of the year, March of the Penguins.

It was a tranquil weekend overall as I didn't do anything particularly eventful--but I did partake in something meaningful.  I'm content to have established a friendship with Rikku, as I feel at this point in my life, she understands me unlike any other in Besaid.  While it may be something that normally troubles me, to be so close to someone quickly, I'm choosing to embrace the things I have for the moments that I have them.  Things come and go, life and its chapters are too short and unpredictable to take it for granted.

With both hands of the clock nearly vertical and the sun invading through, I think it's time I bid myself good night.