Sunday, April 17, 2005

There's no such thing as denial

Sitting down with a small (oh lets be honest here - humongous) bar of chocolate to watch an episode of friends is something I do on a regular basis. Friends is the TV show of my generation, and with the endless re-runs on E4, I've probably seen each episode about 16 times. Last week, to my excitement, I flicked on the telly to discover that E4 were airing the last ever episodes. So, as usual, I re-scheduled my week (for those of u who r beggining to think I'm a little sad - that was an exaggeration) and positioned myself on the sofa for an hour of mindless humour.

For those of you who haven't followed Friends for the last ten years, it involves 6 friends (shocker) mainly Ross and Rachel (great name) who have been falling in and out of love since the very beginning.

In the penultimate episode Rachel bids a long emotional fairwell to 4 of the friends as she is leaving for Paris. Ross is bracing himself for his turn to say goodbye but instead she just walks out of the room without so much as a handshake!

Ross, of course, explodes with anger and demands an explanation as to why she didn't say good bye and Rachel bursts into tears explaining that she didn't say goodbye to him, not because she didn't care but because she cared about him more than all the others and it was just too hard!

At this point in the episode I realised that there were big fat tears rolling down my cheeks. Yes, 'Friends' had in fact reduced me to tears (don't laugh!).

I'm leaving Uni in two months and to be honest, I think I'm still in denial. I've got so many good friends there and we've been through so much together: berievement, politics, parties and burning houses! To be honest, it's gonna be harder to say goodbye to some than others. Actually, I'd rather not do it at all!
There's no such thing as denial........ hmm.