2005-08-10 - 11:01 a.m.
Friends come out of the strangest places sometimes.
I have formed my most meaningful friendships by mere coincidence. It always happens so quickly and without effort and I just know...know that I was meant to have this friend.
Blogging has facilitated this end, but it works a little differently. In blogging, there seems to be this fear that the person on the other end might have ill intentions - I have encountered this more than once. Meeting in person seems to belay this issue for the most part. It's strange to me that it is this way, but I guess it makes sense, since people tend to ill-represent themselves online.
None the less, I have made a couple of friends this way and I look forward to growing the friendships though it may only be here in this electronic realm. Their words of encouragement mean a great deal to me - especially during times of trial, like now. I just wrote to one such "friend" and noted how much his words mean to me and how encouraging I find them, though we have never met in person. It's sad that I do not get this from the people surrounding me - people are more interested in taking than giving it seems.
That's not to say that I don't have friends here, but we're so disconnected right now, so buried in our own lives that we scarcely have time for one another. To me, that is an injustice. I want to feel like a failure when I say that I haven't got time for my friends, but it's the nature of life now.
Funny...but I suddenly feel a hunger to meet new people; I think I've had this bare spot in me for months. I'd like to get together with the new friends that I've made, sit around and chat, eat good food and welcome in a new day. One day perhaps, until then...
...thank you.
