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“But the social pressures eventually became too strong and one day, Kurt walked up to Loftin, visibly upset, and told him that he couldn’t hang around with him anymore. He was just getting too much abuse for being the friend of a “faggot.” Loftin understood completely, and they parted ways. (Michael Azerrad, Come As You Are)”

a lot of things sprout in my mind reading this little paragraph. i think of the world that he lived in to have any of this happen. that you could just up and become someones friend in a day or two, and then start hanging out with them every day, spending hours on end, whenever you had the time. and just as easily, you could stop spending time with that person, and thats it. spending time with other people was just something that you could do constantly, and kind of had to actively opt out of if you didn't want to. 

maybe the nature of socialization has drastically changed for the worse, alienating swathes of youth across the western world as a whole, or maybe i just didnt have friends

