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Well okay, enough of the screaming and yelling, but there is some pertinence to it, so with that being said, let's dive right in, shall we?

So as you may know, about a year ago there was some rough hiccups in multiple friendships that left the majority of 2020 to be a time of feeling empty, feeling alone, feeling numb to the world. Because in those hiccups 2 best friends had been lost to the ages, or at least so it would seem. One of them was a best friend of 2 1/2 years, so naturally that would hit hard and hit home very quickly and very easily once the initial waves of anger and adrenaline have washed out of the system (albeit taking a long time before those waves washed out). Not many people would ever rekindle a friendship after something so dramatic and ridiculous (in hindsight). But the keywords are "not many", meaning that there are occasionally some instances where it is indeed possible.

Luckily for me, I got that small percentage of rekindling one of the friendships I had lost. And yes, I am aware that I have made at least one, if not two, blog posts talking about this friendship I have managed to regain. But this is a friendship that I not only am back on talking terms with, but even in voice calls and playing video games with. That is something I hadn't done since before the incident.

What does Kenobi have to do with this? Well tonight I had the privilege of playing Battlefront 2 (the newer release by EA) for the first time and I was playing it with this friend. It was nice to just talk and chat with him as we gamed and it felt just like old times. It was a lot of good fun and I'm glad I got the chance to be able to play. It almost invokes a sense of nostalgia because it just seems so far away and so long ago that I was at Liberty and that I was rooming with him and playing games with him to ungodly hours (sure today wasn't to a very late time, in fact it was a very normal time to be awake and playing video games haha. Then again a lot of things have changed and we're both working adults now so we can't be as irresponsible as before). Whatever the case may be, it felt good and feels good to be back at it.

This isn't too much of a "serious" post so to speak, at least not in comparison to how many of my other posts have recently been, but that's okay because there shouldn't be some requirement to be 100% serious all the time. If we cannot step back every now and then and just be goofy or have fun times, then what's the point to living? To drone on day by day doing similar enough tasks to be repetitive over the course of a long period of time? Not if I have anything to say about it. Of course sometimes life can get rough and may require that kind of living and lifestyle, but for the moments that I can seize to relax and let loose, you'd best bet your bottom dollar that I'm going to be doing that.

At the end of the day, I technically don't really know how many more times I'll have a common enough time off to sit down and play games with this friend. So I want to make sure I remind myself to just enjoy it for every minute that may come. I always talk about enjoying every moment because you'll never know when the "good times" are as they typically are long past when you realize that they were the "good times". What I do hope to happen is that maybe I can reconvene and hang out with him in person some day, but we'll see where life takes me and where things go. After all, I'm just glad I've got my friend back even though the whole world probably knows that I don't deserve the second chance. So if this is the second chance (honestly probably third or fourth chance if we're being real) then I'll do my best to make sure there is no need to be offered new chances.