Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

As one of the last entries of the student version of this journal last year, I talked about people who expect to get gifts because they have an inflated sense of their own worth to other people, feeling that – even though they are not children anymore – by expressing disappointment at others’ neglect they can guilt others into “caring” for them.

With the advent of the text messages by mobile phone as well as the offering of unlimited sending deals by the telecommunications companies, this has reached a new level when people can and do send out Christmas or New Year’s greetings to everyone in their phone’s memory, which results in the bogging down of the local cellular network during the critical times of these two days mentioned.

Despite this glut from overuse, there are still some people (just like those I mentioned above) who expect to be sent similar greetings in return – and promptly, even when the bandwidth is already overworked. These persons apparently live for acknowledgment, and their need has only been fed by the availability of instantaneous communications.

They believe that other people do not have the right to ignore them anymore because a simple message sent regularly will appease them, even though for those that send them, it may become rote sending “I miss you” or “I’m thinking of you” everyday to the same person.

Companionship, though, is not a one-way street. It’s about two people who have found a window of opportunity to spend more time together or communicating with each other, out of which both parties fulfill a need in its continuation. If one no longer enjoys the company of the other, or finds them to be too demanding , the bond breaks down.

When both sides find the current situation to be untenable, and decide to remedy it, they will have to find a compromise to either return to the way they were before, or to evolve their relationship into something which is acceptable to both. But one cannot assume that the desire is mutual. Individual concerns (that may have changed over time since the initial meeting) have to be respected.

Session 1465 hates all friends for not sending texts back. Class dismissed.