My best friend of 8 years is now 26 years old. He has never had a full time job, doesn't know anything about cooking, cleaning, or hygiene, and can't see a single project or idea to fruition.
We became friends because we have a similar sense of humor, similar taste in movies and shows, and similar critical ability. We met in college. I graduated and began what is now an extremely successful and fulfilling career, and he continued on to graduate school.
He introduced me to flash animation and even had a few small projects posted here on Newgrounds. I got into it thinking that I had a lot of work to do in order to catch up with him, but quickly found that what he had created and accomplished was easily below my ability. I learned more and more about comics, illustration, and animation, and he simply stagnated.
It wasn't that I had more time than he did to devote to personal projects - I was working 40 hour weeks and he was pulling 20 hour school weeks at his own pace. Furthermore, my job is absolutely and entirely unrelated to art and animation, so I have to completely shift gears when I sit down to doodle something.
The dude is married now to a good woman who is competent and successful, and who likes him for all the same reasons I do. Unfortunately, she's never lived with him so now she is slowly realizing what a slob he actually is, and how much of life he wastes just sitting around waxing "coulda, woulda, shoulda".
He has good ideas, and he's enthusiastic about them... but he just never sees them through. Also he's a weak pussy who is just now figuring out that to stay in good health he needs to exercise and not eat complete shit all the time.
I want him to succeed, I really do... but what the fuck? I don't know how he went from brilliant and hard-working to unproductive bum.
tl;dr - should I kill my best friend?
