A Chilly Yet Sunny Spring Day
Can’t believe that Easter is just around the corner … five days!
After enjoying my slice of warm apple pie topped with a healthy scoop of vanilla ice cream and giving what little there was left to Sumo, we watched Greg Ferguson and finally feel asleep. Sumo and I got a good eight hours of sound sleep and today I feel energized.
Figured out why I was feeling a bit lonely last night. Ever felt that you’ve lost a significant sense of belonging or companionship? I have and I do!
When you hear from your acquaintances more than you do from those that say they care about you, something’s wrong with this picture. When one out of three of your “best friends” call you at least once a day, but the other two you hardly ever hear from, something’s terribly wrong with this picture.
I’m not saying that everyone has be in touch every moment of the day or week. On the other hand, when virtually all communication boils down to a minimum trickle the sense of belonging sure dwindles leaving a pretty wide margin of doubt as to the ties that bind. And eventually that tie slowly loosens to where a friend becomes more like an acquaintance and eventually a memory in your past.
Don’t get me wrong! I enjoy and appreciate hearing from my acquaintances. But if it wasn’t for my acquaintances and my one friend, if there wasn’t a need for communicating with the outside world, I might as well shut my phone service down. Lately I share more of me with those I hardly know, maybe even care to know, including my one friend, then I do with the other two who is slowly becoming more of stranger than an acquaintance. Thus, my feelings of loneliness, which for me is not a happy place to be.
Yes, we all get caught up with life … survival is essential! However, no one is that busy that they can’t take a few minutes to say hello. No one is so tied to life that they can’t take time out for what’s important. We all need our strokes. We all have a yarning to feel needed, appreciated, and loved. After all, we all travel this road but once. When it’s over, it’s over!
Maybe it’s time for me to rethink my sense of worth and/or theirs? After all, why keep putting valuable energy where it seems to not be appreciated or reciprocated?
Until Tomorrow
Can’t believe that Easter is just around the corner … five days!
After enjoying my slice of warm apple pie topped with a healthy scoop of vanilla ice cream and giving what little there was left to Sumo, we watched Greg Ferguson and finally feel asleep. Sumo and I got a good eight hours of sound sleep and today I feel energized.
Figured out why I was feeling a bit lonely last night. Ever felt that you’ve lost a significant sense of belonging or companionship? I have and I do!
When you hear from your acquaintances more than you do from those that say they care about you, something’s wrong with this picture. When one out of three of your “best friends” call you at least once a day, but the other two you hardly ever hear from, something’s terribly wrong with this picture.
I’m not saying that everyone has be in touch every moment of the day or week. On the other hand, when virtually all communication boils down to a minimum trickle the sense of belonging sure dwindles leaving a pretty wide margin of doubt as to the ties that bind. And eventually that tie slowly loosens to where a friend becomes more like an acquaintance and eventually a memory in your past.
Don’t get me wrong! I enjoy and appreciate hearing from my acquaintances. But if it wasn’t for my acquaintances and my one friend, if there wasn’t a need for communicating with the outside world, I might as well shut my phone service down. Lately I share more of me with those I hardly know, maybe even care to know, including my one friend, then I do with the other two who is slowly becoming more of stranger than an acquaintance. Thus, my feelings of loneliness, which for me is not a happy place to be.
Yes, we all get caught up with life … survival is essential! However, no one is that busy that they can’t take a few minutes to say hello. No one is so tied to life that they can’t take time out for what’s important. We all need our strokes. We all have a yarning to feel needed, appreciated, and loved. After all, we all travel this road but once. When it’s over, it’s over!
Maybe it’s time for me to rethink my sense of worth and/or theirs? After all, why keep putting valuable energy where it seems to not be appreciated or reciprocated?
Until Tomorrow
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