Tuesday, April 13

some of the essential things in life

sushi. coffee. mailboxes. cupcake. my mac. breakfast panini. fields of green.


something new that i recently made, when i mentioned i was playing with my watercolors. also a new way of writing. any thoughts? yes? no? too hard to read? i hope not!

anyways, attaching yourself with people can be a nice thing. but not when they end up leaving you. i've had quite a few experiences where i would be close to guys, just friends though. but then they get themselves a girlfriend and well.. that friendship is pretty much non-existent.

i guess i get it. i wouldn't want my boyfriend to be hanging around other girls all the time. but i think it's kind of a pity. especially when you've been friends for a very long time. has anyone experience this too? this whole discussion goes back to the same lame question, can girls and guys be just friends? as much as i don't want to believe it, i don't think they can. my previous situations have proved it so.


31 comments:

E is for Eleanor said...

That is a sad situation :(

Very cute photos though, and the food looks yummy! Great watercolouring :)

Melanie's Randomness said...

I was friends with a guy for 4 years & now that he has a gf, he dropped me so fast my head is still spinning. I love your watercolor painting. It's unfortunately true. A part of me is definitely gone. What a pity.

timami yestha p. said...

SUSHI! do you know crispy californian roll? it's really good sushi type. yummyyy~

Karolina said...

oh this is so true. A broken heart never heals completely

Rogue said...

Ive experienced it too. and only when he dumped her did he say to a friend of mine, that he wanted to be friends with me again. hmm, somehow I dont think so!

Loving the sushi and starbucks. Not together, of course. That would taste very odd :) x

Mary Grace said...

The watercolor is a beautiful approach.

I get the attachment thing. And I don't want to be in way of the relationship once the guy found himself a gal.

Effy said...

pretty xx

Christie, Describe Happy said...

I'm nodding for each and everyone of these! Especially the cupcake! May I ask, how do you find all your amazing quotes? Do you come up with them?

aDeLiNe said...

I've only been away for a few days and you've already changed so many things here!
Love the new header. And this watercolour doodle is wonderful! Love the colours and the handwriting!
Oh I missed your blog!
xxx

Tillie said...

I like the watercolour and the new font. Oh you are so clever. x

c abreu said...

looove sushi :9

Laala said...

I used to believe that you could absolutely be friends with the opposite sex. But now I think that it can only work if you're at least a little attracted to each other or have been friends for a really long time, or if you're single. It happens over and over again: I'm close friends with a guy, and when he gets a girlfriend I barely see him and we're not as close even when I do see him. I guess I would want my boyfriend to be with me most of the time, too, but I would never give up my guy friends for him, so why should he give up his friends? I don't know, the whole matter is a pain in the ass.

~Abby~ said...

Yes! I love the new drawing! & the writing! :)
Haha, I can't live without those things either, well,..except the sushi!
xx,
~Abby~

the style crusader said...

i don't think guys and girls can be friends unless: A) they have a shared interest (work, study, hobby etc) or B) they have a past (childhood friends, family friends etc) - all my guy friends have always told me that they would never randomly befriend a girl they didn't find attractive...

love your collection of essentials. those are pretty close to mine too! xx

Orgo Cosmetics said...

I love the watercolor! And...that cupcake looks so delicious...

pumkyn said...

It is very pretty, but I think it is a bit difficult to read.

Ali said...

Oh, I FEEL YOU so much on the guy friends thing. It's the same way with me! Frustrating.

four zero five said...

Boys getting girlfriends and ditching you? Story of my life! What you wrote sounds like it's an extract from my diary. And I totally agree with what Laala said too!

I used to think boys and girls could be friends but I totally deluded myself. In fact, I'm stuck in some weird "friendship" situation at the moment. I think some boys have their cake and want to eat it too and I'm usually the second piece of cake.

bklyn76 said...

your essentials include so many of my essentials!

the watercolour is beautiful, as is your writing.

it sucks when ppl leave...

songping said...

starbucks and sushi! and fields of green, definitely. and the new writing/watercolouring is pretty (:

i'd really like to believe guys and girls can be just friends too, but previous experiences have also proved otherwise. it's quite sad really, but i think we can all understand the feeling of not wanting our boyfriends hanging out with another girl? just that we happen to be "another girl" in some cases. but like fourzerofive, i'm stuck in some weird "friendship" situation (again) too >.<

Cristi said...

our life essentials are very much the same ;) i'm a firm believer that guys and girls can be just friends unless you were more than friends before the friendship evolved. then things will never be right (story of my life). and i have totally experienced the abandonment when a girlfriend comes in the picture (semi-understandable but still lame). my latest predicament is falling in love with my best guy friend but not being able to say a word about this to him (in total fear of rejection) :l

russian doll said...

My 2 best friends are (straight) boys and that's fine. They're awesome. And my long term boyfriend likes them both, they really get along so I can have all my boys. My partner and my friends.

cutlex said...

Interesting. Ones experience is not generally true. My best friend, which is a girl, has no more bonding time to me and the others since she got a boyfriend. But somewhere in this world, the opposite could happen (yes, I am reading too much Nicholas Sparks). That's really contradicting my first statement but that's just how I see it.

Your watercolors are so cool. Another inspiration from you. May I ask, what brands of color pencils and watercolors you think is the best?

Zmaga said...

The new handwriting looks lovely, really, though the words themselves are sad. I lost friends like that too :/

Barbs said...

I think it's awesome that we both took a picture of a cupcake on our macs.. haha. And, about attachment.. I think it's completely true. I attached myself to my best guy friend, and we couldn't make it work as a relationship. So he said that we should have some time apart. I'm not used to not talking to him every day yet, but it's been almost two months and we're slowly back to talking. I think I attached myself too much because I still can't stop thinking about him. Hopefully one day everything will go back to being "normal" with us. Because this silent phase we're in is hard. I've also had another best guy friend who stopped hanging out with me because of his new girlfriend... which was completely normal except this time his girlfriend (soon wife, now exwife) hated me because we were attached. Sigh. I have no luck with boys... hahah.

alphaandomega said...

it's sad but true how we attach ourselves to people and then they walk out of our lives...but we can usually find better people! I like to think that if people leave your life, there's a reason behind it.

I'm digging the watercolour though, it contrasts beautifully with the text!

Anonymous said...

i don't know. i love my best guy friend. he's in my prayers and my heart. i know he used to have feelings for me. i wish i had the same kind of feelings too. i know i will love him, forever, which is not what i can say about any other guy i've ever had a crush on etc. isnt that the best a person can hope for, someone loving them, forever/no matter?

this totally did not answer the question did it heh.
i love your work. so much. simple, humble, meaningful, unpretentious, generous.

YNot said...

At anonymous, I know what you mean, you say you 'love' your friend, but have a crush on someone else, I had a similiar situation, where i loved my friend, but I was 'in love' with someone else, and that difference makes it all the more different, i think that you can only be friends - real friends - if you dont have any other feelings towards each other, otherwise it wont work, my two cents anyway.

Peace.

steph said...

where do you live? i want take away kimbap!

nahnhu said...

i'm a newfound fan of your awesome blogg!! i'm a tumblr, i was introduced to your unique artistic doodles via the quote book. i really appreciate many of your posts, they all resonate with me very well.

and i'd like to thank you for allowing everyone to repost your arts.. that's reallly awesome of you.. i hope that all my readers click on them and follow back to your personal page since they would appreciate many of the things i didn't choose.

i think guys and girls can be js friends if one of the person DOES NOT SEE THE OTHER PERSON in a romantic way and really stick to it. but other than that, i rly don't think it's possible... my previous situations have also taught me that..

Anonymous said...

my best friend is a guy, and he has a girlfriend and they are unbelievably close but he still considers me his best friend, and said i'm like a sister to him. so it is possible, don't give up believing in it!!

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