{"id":452,"date":"2015-06-23T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixingout.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:29:22","slug":"since-jurassic-park-what-ive-learned-about-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/since-jurassic-park-what-ive-learned-about-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"Since Jurassic Park – What I’ve Learned About Friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me take you back to the Summer of 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like most of the kids my age, I was bat-shit crazy for anything about dinosaurs and seeing Jurassic Park for the first time was the cultural equivalent of a spiritual awakening. I went into that cinema a young, impressional boy, but I came out a changed person.<\/p>\n

That was more than twenty years ago. Since then, so much has equally shaped and affected me – as I imagine it has for you also – and the release of the latest Jurassic World film has brought this to my immediate attention. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t already seen it, I definitely recommend you and some friends go for a fun night out, especially if you remember the first one with such fondness and reverence as I do. In the meanwhile, here\u2019s 3 things we\u2019ve all learned during that time.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Those childhood friendships don\u2019t last forever<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

After watching Jurassic Park for the first time, I have vivid memories of recreating some of my favourite parts of the movie with my mates – basically \u2018tag\u2019 in the woods but with dinosaurs – and thinking to myself that these were the people I\u2019d be friends with forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward two decades and I can honestly say I\u2019m not in regular contact with any of them – and one lives two doors down the road!<\/span><\/p>\n

2. \u2026 But they\u2019ll always be the most understanding<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It makes no difference whether you\u2019ve not seen them in months or years, the friends you had when you were little will always be more understanding and less judgemental than the ones you make in later life. <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s because they still remember you at your most naive, you most vulnerable – as you do them – and no matter what\u2019s going on in your personal life right now, they will always give you the time of day and sympathetic ear like no other. Trust me.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. You will not have everything figured out by now<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Chances are you already had the rest of the life sorted when you were 6. <\/span><\/p>\n

You were going to finish school, get that job you\u2019ve seen somewhere in the movies – you know the one, where it never seems to encroach on the characters lives and if it does, it only makes their lives more fun and interesting – and all the trimmings that go with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere along the way, probably around the time you actually did finish school, you realised life doesn\u2019t work out that way. But as a result you\u2019ll learn new things, experience unexpected relationships and become a person you never envisaged. and isn\u2019t that more exciting?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me take you back to the Summer of 1993. Like most of the kids my age, I was bat-shit crazy for anything about dinosaurs and seeing Jurassic Park for the first time was the cultural equivalent of a spiritual awakening. I went into that cinema a young, impressional boy, but I came out a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}