A day in the life…

As I was looking at my notebook just a while ago, I saw something I doodled some days ago.

"Extensive cohesive."

Zeth learned this in one of her masteral subjects, something about personality achuchuchu. As what I remember her telling us, extensive cohesive is a trait common to a group or a barkada that, when you guys have been together for so long, you get to adapt to each other’s quirks and thinkings. You get to like what they like, hate what they hate, do what they like doing, speak the same way, and so on. This usually happens when you’ve been with the same circle of people for more than 2 years but less than 5 years. Less than 2 years, it doesn’t happen yet. More than 5 years, the things you’ve been doing gets boring.

In order not to reach that saturation point, either the group should do something different, or expand your circle or one of them should separate him/herself from that group.

(I should let my sister explain this further. She’s the psych cum laude. She probably knows this.)

Interestingly, I think our group here in the office is a perfect example of extensive cohesive. 80% of the creatives plus a few from the accounts (and their significant others) — we have been together for 3 to 4 years now. Funny, if you actually hear us, you’d know we’ve been sticking around with each other for so long — our brains work the same way. We’re getting weirder by the minute. Our minds are too, er, polluted. We listen to the same music. We eat the same friggin’ junk. Toy Kingdom is our third home. We watch anime. We collect toys and books. We’re camwhores. We kill each other during Counterstike. And most of the time during weekends, we do a lot of things together: eat out, watch a movie, go barhopping (especially when Libis was alive), watch gigs, play billiards, drink our heads out, or just tea party-ing. In that span, we’ve seen about a few come and go (but we still remain in touch with each other), and we’ve always have found new things to do and new places to go.

Thing is, for me it’s almost 5 years. And I don’t want to get to that saturation point. I’ve been thinking over these past few days on making some drastic change in myself to prevent this aftermath of extensive cohesive.

Actually, I’m waiting for something. We’ll see.

For now, I’m enjoying this extensive cohesive thing.