A day with an old friend reminded me how good it is to have people -friends - who are "always there." If you aren't lucky enough to know the "pick up where you left off" kind of friends, that is, in my opinion, very sad. I might even cry for you tonight. Just coming from an encounter with a friend who's known me - and has "been there" for so many seasons of life - is a refreshment to a weary soul. (I know because my soul is weary.) And if you've never known that refreshing moment of sitting across from an old friend, I am simply sad for you.
I count in my blessings tonight all of my "pick up where you left off" friends. Because relationships are difficult - no matter type. They often take so much work that the relationship has exhausted it limits before you see any benefits; before you can think to pick up any one thing of value, much less figure where you left it. These friends, the "pick up where you left off" friends, are a breed that give me hope. Hope that, at very least, the efforts I put into relationships are not all futile. It helps me realize that tough seasons change constantly on the landscape of life, there are constants. Some things do remain the same in this ever-changing world. If you're lucky, some of those constants are people who love you for who you are, the "pick up where you left off" kinds of friends who lovingly provide for good, deeply refreshing moments when it's okay to let your hair down and be yourself.
Days like today also make me appreciate jr. high school and all the awkward moments it embodied. The truth is that the moments never really get less awkward, we just learn to navigate them better.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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