Let It Bleed

“You can't always get what you want.

But if you try, sometimes you might find

You get what you need.”

So the situation with the suitemates isn’t as bad as I thought it might be. They are kind of distant because they know each other really well and I’m the newcomer, but they aren’t mean. We had a night where they invited some of their friends over and we had tacos and I made cookies for them. We each have our sets of friends and we go our separate ways most of the day. The only thing I’m worried about is when my actual roommate moves out. They want one of their friends to move into my room. That would make things a whole lot more awkward. But I’ll deal with that as it comes.

I was worried about this week, what I was going to do with a whole 10 days of no classes. But I realized that it was a good opportunity to meet up with the friends that I haven’t seen since last semester. I haven’t had a lot of meals by myself yet. It’s also been a good time to get all my errands done. I haven’t seen some of the people I wanted to from old times, but it’s all good. I keep things moving anyway. Maybe that’s not what I need.

I think the Rolling Stones song, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, as my motto for the year. What I really want may not be the thing that I really need.