thursday post

The book began to head in a completely different direction than what I expected it to. I thought it was going to focus more on the adolescent life of the group, and ultimately explain what they went through on a day to day basis. It went on to their lives after university and school. He explains that the group wrote more to Adrian than they did to each other. As the story moves on, it seems that their dependence on Adrian is going to define the central theme of the book. He then goes into the part of his life with his girlfriend. I really enjoy some of the sarcasm in this British humor, and the story of him going to see his girlfriend's parents especially. His perception of the encounter with her parents seems to a cynical one. A perception that everyone around him is judging him wrongly or in a certain manner that would make him look bad. That sort of made me think a little. His encounter with her family went fine, but it was his thoughts of possibly screwing up his possibility of staying with his girlfriend that ultimately skewed his perceptions of the family's thoughts on him. They obviously liked him, but he felt as if he were screwing the encounter up, because he was afraid of doing that exact thing. Sometimes, our perceptions of an event or of an encounter with someone is affected by our wants/fears, and are not always true. It's better to focus on what you know for a matter of fact, rather than worry about what you think he/she is thinking of you.