Just Plain Shallow Aug 01, 2005 08:49:48 PM
I finally got an opportunity to go out to dinner with a girl that I hadn't seen for almost 2 years. We had some fun times back in the day but eventually drifted apart. So I thought it would be nice to talk about what each of us are up to these days.
After about a week of indecisive planning, a time and location had finally been set. But just when everything was established she asks me the night before, if she can bring along her best friend. Well I figured since I already knew her too, why not? Ok, so now it would be the 3 of us, more for us to talk about. Wrong! More for THEM to talk about!
I don't know if this is how they've always been, or this is what they've become, but either way, I've come to realize just how shallow and superficial girls can be. Never in my life have I had to fight so hard to get a word in. The purpose of that evening was to get reacquainted with each other, not to discuss where the best place to buy designer jeans with the little dyed streaks across the upper thigh is.
Now granted I went in there to find out what's new in their lives, but this was ridiculous. It was only 1 of the 2 girls that lead the majority of the in-depth and stimulating conversations that so eloquently persisted that evening, and none of it had anything to do with anything. All they did was talk about themselves, the whole night was completely one sided. It's like I wasn't even there! On and on and on to each other about stuff that obviously would not be of any interest to me. I went in there wanting to know stuff like, ''how's the new job going, what kind of things are you doing in there, is there more schooling in your future, how's the family?'' Maybe even entertain some questions about how I've been, or how my baby sister is fairing. No. Instead, I left learning that the one girls i-pod is broken, that going to the mall would be a complete waste of time with out returning something old for something new, that a recent trip to Mexico made the food we were eating taste fake, it just… just.. never ended!
If you were there that night, you would have heard the word, ''I'' used more in 30 sec than you would hear at an ophthalmologist's in an entire day. I can honestly swear to god that I was not asked a single question THE ENTIRE NIGHT. Not so much as a, ''how's school going?'', or a, '' so where you working now?'', or even a lousy, ''What's new?'' And now of course the ironic twist, I was the one who organized the whole thing!
Wow, just, wow. How can anyone be that self-absorbed, inconsiderate, and selfish. Well the whole night was not a complete disappointment I guess, the movie was good, and the dinner was phenomenal. I even learned at least one piece of useful information, what I now find to be the most unattractive quality in a female, egocentricity.
definition: egocentricity; noun; Withdrawal from the external world and concentration on the inner self. Self-centeredness, inability to entertain feelings and thoughts of others.
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