Yes, what was I thinking? I should not have stayed at SCC beyond a year or two, or else changed my major and done something more realistic and productive for me, but for some reason I felt that I was stuck on a track that I sort of instinctively knew would fail me in the end. There was something hollow about that.
Even so, I think that it is a matter of self-preservation to reject certain persons from being my close friends, which they are not. There is no reason to continue this conversation that never got started.