Undiscridited Friendship

Today (yesterday in accordance to post time), I realized something.

I realized that a slight bit of paranoia caused me to doubt the status of friendship with Suraj.

The fact that he doesn't care about work (not his job, my job) irked me a bit in the beggining, but I quickly realized that it's no longer his duty. He doesn't really care if a cashier is late, can't come in at all, or other little events, that are a big deal to me. He is still watchfull of things. I had work interfere with my perception of things with him.

Also, there was the fact that one of his long time friends works there now. He chats with him plenty, and is always out and doing things with him. I often sit in the fringe of things, and am not usually involved in the things that his tigher/longer known group of friends are.

I finally had a chance to chat today. Granted, the word that I seemed to consider him mostly work friend (for reasons above) went to him, since I did rather complain rather loudly.

Suraj is a good friend, and people have friends in various levels. I've know him for some time now, and believe him to be a good guy, that is worth keeping in touch with. I let his distancing from work, give to paranoia about friendships.