My Dual Life

I admit it: I live two lives. 9 months out of the year, I’m a hardworking, half-Japanese, studious, BMES officer, hospital volunteer, nice guy, foul-mouthed Colorado native who you can often find in B62 or playing video games at home. The other 4 months, I’m the nice, calm, friendly, drinking and occasionally smoking high school friend who’s away at Pitt for 9 months out of the year and pops in during vacation time. In one place, I am a country boy; the other, a city slicker.

Well, which am I? I don’t think you can truly understand this unless you go out of state for college. I literally have 2 sets of awesome friends; my high school friends who I’m still tight with and are all in Colorado, and my Pitt friends, who I have become close with over the past 2 years. I can honestly say I can’t really see them mingling together should these lives come together in some sort of freak, tectonic plate shift that brought Pitt right next to Fo’ Co’. They would talk, sure, but become friends with each other? I find that a hard one to swallow. They are two sets of friends who reflect my two lives; vacation in Colorado, work at Pitt. One group is studious, dedicated, and fun to do things with usually outside of my usual interests. The other, always fun, always chill, all have the same interests that I do, from gaming to camping to everything.

Someone once said that your friends define you as a person. Am I two people, or the same person in two completely different circumstance, and have made (and retained) friends from said circumstances? Why are each respective groups overall personalities different?

I don’t care for an answer to my question, ‘cause it doesn’t matter. Friends are friends, who the fuck cares what defines you as a person?