Worlds Colliding

Have you ever tried doing something together with two different groups of friends? I’d say that I have at least ten distinct groups of friends. Friends from high school, work, college, chemistry friends, biology friends, wildlife biology friends, micro friends, etc. While I write about this I’m reminded of that Seinfeld episode when George’s complaining about mixing different groups of friends together: "A George divided cannot stand!"

In my mind, it always starts out the same way: "Well, I have fun with this group of friends, and I have fun with this other groups of friends, so therefore I’ll have even more fun with both these groups combined!" Uh, no. What always happened is I end up having to divide my time up between the two groups. The same thing happens on the first day of class when you see several different friends who are in the class too. "OK, who should I sit next to?" If they are true friends, they won’t really care who you sit with, but often enough, someone does get angry.

It's impossible to be all things, to all people. I wish they'd hurry up and start making human clones. That would make things a lot easier I think.

Just an observation ...