old friends
i have been experiencing lately a profound need to contact old friends - from as far back as grade school, up to high school folks and college, people from Chicago - i have let far too many connections lapse. e-mail makes it so very easy - why have i neglected these people? i think i'm finally coming out of a depression that started mid-way into my now-defunct marriage. i've missed me! and i've missed my friends.
most of them have replied pretty quickly with their latest news and invitations to visit - i wish i could travel to them all and spend long evenings talking and laughing and giving each other our life stories.
i am better with my friends. i could easily become a hermit, stuck in my self-centered rut, only spending my precious energy on self-serving endeavors. but i am better when i am stretched socially, when i have lunch with these ladies and take a walk with those, when i have long-lost buddies over for a dinner i don't have time to make. i'm better when i surround myself with people who love me, and who i love, and who laugh and cry and hug and say. "why in the world don't we do this more??"
i'm so very, very lucky.
posted by mo2mngirl @ 7:15 PM
2 Comments:
I am better with friends, too..
but I too could easily become a hermit..
hiding out in the house, not answering the phone.. refusing invitations.. not extending them..
hmm
that is what i do!
friends are good .. they make life worth the struggle it sometimes is.. but..
sometimes... they just hurt yourheart..
I am not sure my heart can take much more, you know?
Well.. now and then, like you .. I wade out to the middle of the world and spend the time.. venture into the world and laugh and talk and.. then.. back to the shell ..
Hiding behind my dog and some books..
and the looming monitor that both allows me to connect with ood people, and allows me to hide..
Friends are so important in life. It is nice to hear that you are connecting to your early friendships again.
Take care,
Mary
ps-I enjoyed my visit.
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