Million Dollar Baby or Group Photo

I checked out "Million Dollar Baby" tonight and was very impressed. It was beautifully shot and remarkably touching. Definitely not the route I was expecting the story to take, but a total pleasure to watch. Seeing the flick followed the attempts to take a group photo of the gang to give to Rob when he leaves. I say attempts because due to schedule problems and Matt's lack of effort, it was not possible to get all the people together that I'd wanted... In the end, it was just the "classic 4" of myself, Matt, Jon, and Jay. The pic turned out quite well, but Matt is going to also try to photoshop me into another picture he has of the rest of the guys AND Rob. Whichever one turns out better will be framed up and handed over to Rob so that he always remembers his buds from the 'Peg. I've been really sad about this whole Rob leaving thing over the past few days. It's hard to let go of something that meant a lot to you. Maybe I never really stopped to think about how much I value Rob's friendship before, but with him leaving I've come to realize just how much of an influence on my life he has been and how much fun I have with him. It seriously sucks that he's going to be gone for so long (perhaps indefinitely). The only comfort I can take is that he is going to be doing something that makes him happy and that is the most important thing. I mean if he were to remain in the city, work menial jobs and be unhappy just so that things didn't change and we could all keep our "high school" comfort zones then his life wouldn't be as rich as it could've been. Having him leave and live a more fulfilled life is much better, despite the fact that it's making me sad. I guess it's just that I never really thought things would change so drastically with all of us... Our lives have managed to avoid any serious displacements of valued group members for so long, that I just kinda expected things to always stay that way... It makes me wish that I'd made more of an effort to appreciate what times I did have... not that I didn't stop and think about how great things were, but I'm sure that I could've done more. That and tell Rob that he was such a good buddy... At least I can still do that... Man... now I feel like crying... If only I still had that ability...
Some advice to people reading, if you have a small bump somewhere on your face that you are convinced is a zit despite not being able to squeeze it out, it's probably not a good idea to start to jab at it with a sewing needle or gouge at it with nail clippers. That only causes more pain and some minor swelling... Luckily I never followed through with my brief inclination to take a razor blade to the thing... cuz I think that it might actually be a small cyst... Yeah... sometimes I can be a little mental... although it's mostly with small annoyances that I really want to be rid of but can't wait for the natural progressions to do so.