kristl: u know the summer camp syndrome?
ian: hmm havent heard of it
ian: wot is it?
kristl: no i just noticed it
kristl: like when ur in summer camp u feel like ull be super close with ur friends forever
kristl: then afterwards, u realize that u dont have much in common anymore and ur not so good friends and u drift
ian: but wen its done...
ian: yea i sooo get wot u mean

So yeah, Kristl and I were just talking about random stuff after she consulted me about her career options... and it's funny that she brought up the event she so aptly called the Summer Camp Syndrome. It's nothing very foreign to me... and most times I wish "summer camp" won't end. Is this event all too natural, the way things normally would go? Is there no way to fight the syndrome?

I guess often I am the one at the hopeful end, believing that we would all be friends forever. So in the end, I get hurt... but I'm too stubborn not to believe, or try or hope... that moments shared in "summer camp" do last forever, that friendships do last a lifetime... even if reality tells me otherwise