BSG --- for your penny ... thank you. And for your nickel ... you did. :)
Lis --- I just got your message this afternoon (don't know why I didn't hear the phone ring last night?!) ... thank you and I love you.
M1-- I TOLD you to google it!! You NEVER did listen to me!
T- thank you for sharing. I see we have more in common than I knew.
K-- You know me too well. :)
To the anon Andersen person --- I cannot thank you enough. It means so much to me to hear from people who knew Jim -- especially at work. More than I can say. I love hearing about him and about the side of him that you saw more than I did ..... which really wasn't any different than the side I saw ---- if that makes sense. Again, thank you.
WH-- thank you for your insight, too. And for the validation. And for being there.
I've had a full day. It was an emotional day of training and discussing our thoughts on prayer and what God does, or doesn't, allow to happen in our lives (please .... do NOT get me started on THAT!). We finished up around 3:30 and then I ran to the store, picked up Son #3 and we both got haircuts, came home and changed and then went to a "surprise" 50th birthday party for a friend. I use quotation marks because I don't think he was all that surprised. Men.
A woman would have totally faked surprise.
So I just got home and I'm heading to bed. All in all a good day. I have met new people and made new friends .... always a good thing in my book.
Here's an easy question ..... even for those of us who don't relish sharing our feelings (thank God for this blog ... really. I'm not sure what heaping mass of gunk I'd be without this outlet) .....
can you ever have too many friends?
I told you it was easy.
And I'm not going first this time.
But if I were ..... I'd say ...... NO!!!!
7 comments:
You can never have enough friends, but my mother's favorite saying was always, "family first". Your brothers and sisters are your forever friends. That is one thing I love about having 6 bro's and sis's. Your bro HATED the phone bill we had when we first got married though! LOL.
He has gotten used to our phone ringing off the wall on birhdays and holidays. He knows there is going to be at least 6 different calls each time! My two girls only have eachother and I try to imbed that in their heads everyday!
As for friends, they are a special addition to our families, and no you cannot have enough of them. (Especially when you live so far away from FAMILY)I am happy to say that I have friends all over the world thanks to your bro's career. ;)
XOXO
Praying for you!
K in AK
Ok, I'm just getting caught up here. We (I) did alot of unpacking yesterday and it's finally getting there. Feeling's are supose to be bottled up aren't they? That's what I have always done becuase when I let them out bad things always come to pass. Maybe it is because I don't share them the right way or something. Who knows, there's that whole scarred thing. (not from you mom/dad) As for the friends...don't have any right at the moment here in the new hood. But I think you can never have to many. The family thing K1 mentioned it totally true. I love u J! And I do so Pray thing will turn around for you soon. You so deserve good things to happen to you NOW!
I am going to say that it is theoretically possible to have too many. Here's why...It takes a certain amount of energy to advance and/or keep a relationship and we have only so much energy. So as friendships (the amount of them) expand and contract (like from moving or changing jobs) friends and their closeness to me changes also. That's my 2 cents. Good question!
I think that is different for every person and every stage of life. I'm not sure having so many "friends" that you yourself (I mean this in a "general" YOU...not you specifically, J!) can be a friend to is a good idea...did that make sense even though it's grammatically incorrect???!!!
I think we use the term friend too lightly. More often the people I call friends are likely to be acquaintances. You can’t have too many acquaintances, but I think there is a limit to the number of friends one can have. Developing a friendship requires an investment of time and emotion in a relationship which includes sharing feelings.
To the previous anon commenter:
Thanks for your comment but I do not agree. I, for one, do not use the term "friend" lightly at all.
I have many, many acquaintances. And I have many friends. There may be a limit but I think that also depends on your definition of the word "friend".
My definition is someone that I know and care about - a lot, and whom I know cares for me. I know that I could ask a "friend" for help in anything and would not be turned down. I know that I would do the same if asked by a "friend". We don't have to spend a lot of time together to care for each other, to be there for each other. And my friends know me well enough to know that it's difficult for me to express my feelings. And they are my friends anyway.
Some friends are better than others, of course, in that I spend more time with some than others. But I have many, many friends that don't require investments from me, other than my support and encouragement and care.
I consider that to be a huge blessing.
This is a bit off the friend topic but at the same time it is kind of the same. After my kids went off to college, I got a comment you are at church all alone . . . hmm, I said I'm not alone look at all the 400+ people I'm here with . . . that I call my family.
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