Famous Friend
Some people think it must be cool to have a famous friend. You’re
imagining hanging with someone like, say, Keanu, and Keanu
telling you things he doesn’t tell anyone else, and you ragging on him
for sucking at PlayStation. That would be cool. But what it’s
actually like is one of your friends—your real friends, say your best
friend—and he’s exactly the same only everyone thinks he’s wonderful.
Do you see how annoying that is? Because, sure, he’s
a good guy, but he’s not perfect. He’s not God. But now everyone
fawns over him and tells you how lucky you are to know him. That’s
why they pay attention to you: because you might help them get closer
to him. And
whenever you spend time with him, just the two of you, you both know he could
be somewhere else, listening to people flatter him or take him cool
places for free or sleep with him, because he’s famous.
Being friends with a famous person is the worst. And that’s why when
the magazines come sniffing around, asking just off the record,
just for background, is he really happy, and does he drink or ever do
drugs, and did he really hit that girl, you tell them everything.
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Posted: 5207 days ago
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Narain (#824)
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Brittany O. (#1688)
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Karan (#1376)
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Can't wait to read that magazine interview!
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Posted: 5207 days ago
~The TC
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Simon (#3192)
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Posted: 5207 days ago
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Location: Brisbane
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Posted: 5207 days ago
That's a thing that happens, right?
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Posted: 5207 days ago
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Location: USA
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Posted: 5207 days ago
and i'll be honest, i'm kind of excited.
Location: Ballston Spa, NY, USA
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Like "I had Taco Bell for dinner and then my famous friend came for a visit"...
So, yeah, having a famous friend sucks.
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Posted: 5207 days ago
Location: new york general sort of vicinity
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Posted: 5206 days ago
- I'm not Max's friend (although we have communicated on friendly terms)
- I didn't do anything bad
- I'm not famous
But maybe this is the beginning of some new fiction. If so, when does he cut off his friend's leg?
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jessica (#3063)
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Posted: 5206 days ago
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