All of my life I have been the funny friend. I’ve been the one who can make someone’s bad day better. I’ve always been the one to be positive in dark times. I’ve always been the one that’s taken everyone else’s feelings into consideration when they’ve felt dismissed.
It’s weird when you’re the funny friend, though. Just because you’re there for your friends in all these circumstances, you come off strong. When you can cheer someone up at any moment, nobody will ever think you’re sad.
You can’t show anyone you’re sad. Then you won’t be the funny friend. Who would you be?
Who would I be?
When you’re the funny friend, it’s much easier to get dismissed because, well, you’re the fun friend who can handle it. If you get left out of something, you’ll find something else to do or other people to hang out with, right? There’s no point in checking in.
If something bad happens to you, yeah people will say sorry, but that’s it. There’s not actual thought, it’s just so on paper that they “tried” to be there for you. There’s no true meaning behind it.
Everybody wants to be the funny friend. However, If everyone had to deal with their hardships in the ways that the fun friend is used to dealing with them, they would trade back in a heart beat.
It’s easier to notice these things more and more as you grow up. I guess that just a part of it, huh?
Everything is totally turned around when you’re the funny friend. They come off as invincible, so they are treated like it. Most of the time it feels as if they aren’t needed or wanted around unless someone needs a laugh or a break from the seriousness of the world. Their feelings aren’t thought twice about because they are positive and have everything together.
Until they don’t.
There’s only so long you can pour from an empty glass to help others.
Check on your funny friends, appreciate them.
