elanya

You've got the grumps! I am confident it'll pass... probably a combination of a lot of things, including the end of school... that always made me a little melancholy about friendship stuff. You need to know that you're *not* a bad or slack friend to distanced folk, no, you're a great friend. Maybe you can't do everything you want to do all the time, but that's the same for everyone, especially when we're in school. We all do what we can and, yea, sometimes it's ok to lazy or selfish, too. It's necessary.

The dog thing surprised me, to be honest! It is a big responsibility, and for myself, I have avoided it the same way I avoid committing to real people. :P Interesting that I never really reflected on the utter dependency of dogs (at least, urban dogs) until you brought it up. However, just speaking from my own perspective, perhaps it's not the dependency of a dog or human you're avoiding, but vulnerability? A dog won't ever question you, never mind hurt you. It's very different from a human companion.