Friendship is a 10 letter word

Being a girl is hard.

Boy that's quite a thesis huh? It could encompass and include millions of things. Well here's where I'm going with it.

Boys have it easy in the friend department. You like sports, you find another guy who likes sports, you're automatically friends. You like video games, you find another guy who likes video games and you have a common interest to bond over and spend hours doing while hanging out.

If you're a guy and your guy friend pisses you off, you get in a fight, it might lead to blows, then you're cool. (This is all speculation, but this is how it appears from the other side.) That's it. You're cool. I mean, what is that?

Girls, however, have predominantly girl friends. Girls are bitches. We befriend each other sometimes in genuine friendship, sometimes because we have to, and sometimes we just want something that girl has. Everything is a game.

Girls have little to bond over. It seems like everything we like, we want. You can't bond over something you're fighting over. Perhaps I'm exaggerating and generalizing, but that's what it seems to boil down to.

If your girl friend does something to piss you off, you don't talk about it, you just try to get back at your "friend" through passive aggressive means. Be that talking behind her back, or using her toothbrush to clean the sink (not something I've done, but something my friend has done, not to me, I hope). It seems impossible to find a genuine friend past the age of 10. Even at 10, though, you might only be friends with someone because she has a pool, or cool toys.

Hence, being a girl is hard. Are my friends mine? Do they even like me? What horrible things have they said behind my back?

I'm not saying I'm not guilty of all of these things. I'm a girl through and through. I've trash talked and passive aggressived and all of the above. When will it be done? Who knows?

And, in addition to all of this, we have all sorts of things to live up to. We have to be pretty, skinny, successful, not crazy, not bitches, not slutty, not mean, not shy, not scared, independent, dependent and if we haven't been in a relationship for a certain amount of time there's something wrong with us.

I don't know that I necessarily would rather be a man, but it sure seems like it would easier.

But you know what? They may be thinking all the same things about themselves.

Why can't we just be?

Anyway, 2 more days till my birthday!