I’m the biggest one in my friend group to go a different direction.
But there’s one guy who I was decent friends with. He’d been the most vocal atheist at our catholic school, went off to a prestigious college in California that happened to be Christian. The few times I saw him after that he’d been getting over his proto-incel mindset he’d had since high school, was increasingly progressive and feminist and starting to get women’s attention. Then he disappeared, last I heard he’d started a philosophy degree and converted to a form of conservative Christianity, but that’s just a rumor.
There’s also the friend who’s manic-depressive and had been increasingly into drugs through high school and as he was failing out of college due to mental illness. He was a progressive communist and atheist since we were like 12. Hell he was the person to break me out of the Catholic anti choice stance when we were teenagers. Well he had a bad trip in our early 20s, and he found a very different Jesus than the other friend. He’s done with psychedelics and never touched the hard stuff. He kept his political beliefs though, just found Jesus with them. Wound up finding a career that makes him happy in landscaping, and he’s engaged now to a woman who seems really good for him. It’s been too long since we’ve seen each other, he’s a good man even if he did wind up the sort of guy that’s really into sports.
My other two friends from high school more shocked me by how they stayed the same. I love them both, they’re good men, but also little growth in their 20s.
It’s partly a joke, but also the man does want to watch football or a fight when we hang out. Meanwhile the rest of us are still very much not into sports. The jockiest I get is that I’m into biking and hiking
I’m the biggest one in my friend group to go a different direction.
But there’s one guy who I was decent friends with. He’d been the most vocal atheist at our catholic school, went off to a prestigious college in California that happened to be Christian. The few times I saw him after that he’d been getting over his proto-incel mindset he’d had since high school, was increasingly progressive and feminist and starting to get women’s attention. Then he disappeared, last I heard he’d started a philosophy degree and converted to a form of conservative Christianity, but that’s just a rumor.
There’s also the friend who’s manic-depressive and had been increasingly into drugs through high school and as he was failing out of college due to mental illness. He was a progressive communist and atheist since we were like 12. Hell he was the person to break me out of the Catholic anti choice stance when we were teenagers. Well he had a bad trip in our early 20s, and he found a very different Jesus than the other friend. He’s done with psychedelics and never touched the hard stuff. He kept his political beliefs though, just found Jesus with them. Wound up finding a career that makes him happy in landscaping, and he’s engaged now to a woman who seems really good for him. It’s been too long since we’ve seen each other, he’s a good man even if he did wind up the sort of guy that’s really into sports.
My other two friends from high school more shocked me by how they stayed the same. I love them both, they’re good men, but also little growth in their 20s.
It’s partly a joke, but also the man does want to watch football or a fight when we hang out. Meanwhile the rest of us are still very much not into sports. The jockiest I get is that I’m into biking and hiking