Friends Make the Best Veggies!

The past few days, if not weeks, taught me something very important about relationships: The time is now to cultivate. What is cultivation? Well, because I'm a lazy goofball I checked Dictionary.com, and they describe "cultivate" as a verb "to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till".

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Unlike Animal Crossing, Minecraft, or its sad older cousin Farmville, building a farm and establishing a plot of land takes time. I'm not an expert in farming, but in the stage of land development you must build a fence to mark the end of your territory. Some Facebook enthusiasts, on the other hand, want thousands of friends: The idea being the more friends you have on Facebook, then the more popular people believe you to be. It's almost impossible to be a really good friend to thousands of people, and so that large group of people become "acquaintances": People you recognize as good people, but don't have a vested interest in their lives, and vice versa. All the same, you are happy to see them.


With that said, in the hunt to have millions of friends on Facebook and millions of followers on Twitter, it's easy to forget about the actual friends you do have, or those that remain after you spent weeks and months inside building your mega city on a digital snowcapped mountain in Minecraft with a mouse and your index finger o_O


You didn't mean to be a prude and forget important dates in their history like if they still within the borders of your current country of residence, when within the next year they will marry their university sweethearts, declared they will play for your alma mater's varsity football team (Hi Shaka), or if they broke up with their significant other and are stuck at the corner Starbucks between a loud cell phone talker and the New Parents Book Club that meets every Tuesday at the coffee bar.

FUN: Telling your absent-minded friends to win tricks when they aren't supposed to.

Instead of growing your fan base, why not cultivate the relationships you do have? Pick ONE spot you frequent on a regular basis, become involved, and take a genuine interest in the lives of the people that frequent that chosen spot as well. Pick ONE event or something you enjoy doing, and invite others to join you (CAVEAT: As long as this 'fun' is wholesome, legal, and will not result in you having a guilty conscience about it. The things we whisper in the shadows always end up shouted from the rooftops). A good example is the WIZARD card game: If you did not laugh hysterically at least once during a six player game of WIZARD, you are not human. It is true, however, that saying Yes to one thing means saying No to something else, and that is just part of growing up as well as something I call "change" ^_^ As long as you are honest and willing to move forward with your life, you may find those things you say No to now will be available to you down the road. In most cases, if not all, you will be a better person for it. There are a myriad of things you can do to stop being an "acquaintance" to many, and a better "friend" to several; all you need to do is take that first step and...CULTIVATE! ^_^