Band Christmas concert today (if, for some reason, you're reading this and don't already know me, I play Tuba in brass bands), which was nice. New band, but apart from that christmas concerts are pretty much the same, but strangely enough it hasn't put me in the mood for the season. Maybe because it's so early, but then again I did get a surge of excitement in the last week of November, which has since dissipated as we have moved into December. Perhaps the head down, full speed charge through the last week of uni attitude is setting in, and I'm oblivious to anything outside of that. Hopefully I'll feel more in the mood for Christmas when I'm back home with all that's familiar, family and friends are, after all, what I most associate the season with.
In other news, I won three bottles of booze and some biscuits in the raffle at this concert, so not a bad result all in all.
I'll give more reflections on my first term at uni this time next week, when I'm back home and the whole thing's over (if I'm still writing by then, that is), but just had a moment of introspection that I thought I might share with any readers I may have.
There is a person at university who I have met, and become friends with, with whom I feel I have a particular rapport, something of a connection that makes me feel particularly friendly towards her (nothing romantic involved here, just to have it said), if you know what I mean. That isn't meant to sound creepy - I hope that doesn't sound creepy.
Anyway, I was talking to her just now, and she's one of those 'I don't feel for people' types, and - in short - it emerged that she doesn't feel any sort of affection for me, that she considers us friends but doesn't think that we have that much in common. And, well, for the first time I considered that we were perhaps not destined to be great friends as I had decided early on, and further more, I did consider the idea that maybe we don't share as much of a connection as I had believed.
In conclusion, this little bit of introspection made me realise that the people I'm friends with now quite possibly won't be my friends for all time; and yes, I'm sure more experienced students are laughing at my making this incredibly obvious realisation, and whilst I had heard it said before and comprehended it on an intellectual level, I don't think I considered it emotionally until now. And even more than that, I realised that, perhaps, I don't want the current group of friends that I have thus far accumulated to be my permanent group of friends for all my student life - maybe.
This, I think, is an optimistic idea to punctuate the end to my first term at uni - although it may feel that things have developed into a routine, this current state of affairs is far from permanent, and can and will change.
I like that idea.
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