The Rainy Day
”It doesn’t rain very often in the town of Fairview, but when it does, it pours. It was on just such a day that Bree Van de Kamp went on her first date with her new friend, Orson Hodge. A date that ended with a kiss in the rain. Gabrielle Solis was conferring with her new divorce lawyer and describing in vivid detail her husband’s affair with their maid who also happened to be their surrogate. Meanwhile, Lynette Scavo was busy meeting her husband’s illegitimate daughter while resisting the urge to strangle the girl’s mother. This happened just after Susan Mayer learned Mike Delfino had been badly injured in a hit and run accident and was now in a coma at Fairview Memorial Hospital. At that same moment, Edie Britt was putting up a For Sale sign on the lawn of the house where I once lived. Edie had also planned to spruce up the property by washing down the driveway, but she was pleased to see the rain had already taken care of that. This is what rainy days are good for. They make everything clean again. Which is necessary on a street like Wisteria Lane where everything can get so messy.” -Brenda Strong in Desperate Housewives
It’s a common thing, to hear people saying this or that friend has changed. And most times, the change wasn’t for the best and the result is the ending of the friendship, or it becomes just a bump in the road and things go on as nothing had happened. But people don’t change. No matter their behaviour may seem awfully different than it was before, no matter how horrible the things said; or how good, the personality of the person hasn’t changed a bit.
Throughout the time a friendship dures, you think you know your friend but you don’t. There are traits that only come up in certain times and with certain actions. And those traits can be immensely different from the normal personality and even contradictory.
Then, the friend can become a stranger, it’s somewhat tough, to learn new things about one’s personality because sometimes we are against those things, we can’t deal with them, or we simply don’t like them. The fact is sometimes, during hard times, people can become different from the ones we thought we knew and that change can make some damage. Especially, when that change turns good people into bad, making them do things they will regret bitterly later but felt good when they happened. Good isn’t exactly the word, they felt right. Maybe we were blinded by the rush of the moment and said things that hurt the person listening;maybe we did things he never thought we could do; maybe we thought things we were never capable of before; and maybe we did all these things alltogether.
It is dangerous, to a relationship (whatever kind) to change the way people look at us. They were with us because we were appealing and attractive psychologicaly and when those things vanish and turn into something else…not quite good…
But should we wait for those personality shifts in everyone? No! Not everyone changes his mind, some people remain exaclty the same. They are put to difficult times and still, react like you know they will.
It’s in the way people see life, their actions, thoughts, friends, and the way they see themselves… people don’t change; they don’t become monsters in a blink of an eye; they don’t become the sweetest angels when you know them as devils. They mutate momentarily due to the pressure of a particular moment, but the consequences of that moment and that brief mutation…can be permanent.
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(I will not write the other half of the post, the usually more intimate, because what made me write this text is slightly… painfull and I’d rather not write anything more)
“Every storm brings with it hope that somehow by morning, everything will be made clean again. And even the most troubling stains will have disappeared. Like the doubts over his innocence or the consequence of his mistake. Like the scars of his betrayal or the memory of his kiss. So we wait for the storm to pass hoping for the best even though we know in our hearts some stains are so indelible, nothing can wash them away.” -Brenda Strong in Desperate Housewives
Carlos André da Palma Alves
