Today’s project: Get back in the swing of things
I have the best friends in the world.
Seriously.
Look, I KNOW everyone says they have the best friends, and maybe they even mean it. But I do have the most wonderful group of ladies in my life!
I think you can tell a lot about yourself by the people you call your friends. Now, on the surface, that seems like a ‘no brainer’ kind of statement, but think about it – who you choose to surround yourself with says a lot about your needs, emotional as well as social.
Recently, one of my friends asked me ‘Why is that person your friend?’ As I answered the question, I had to admit that it sounded like a pretty superficial kind of relationship. That person is my go-to-lady, in particular, for one specific aspect of my life. But what I realized through the course of the conversation was that ALL of my friends fill a specific part of my life. And the greatest revelation was that each one represents a single slice of a whole. Like a pie. Each of my friends fills a super special hole in my heart – one that is shaped just like them and no one else.
I’ve been feeling kind of stuck lately…
Stuck in a big hole that bears a striking resemblance to my bed…ok, sometimes it looks a lot like my couch, too.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve still been doing stuff. And once in a while, it’s a lot of stuff. But I haven’t been able to bring myself to sit down and focus long enough to blog. About anything.
So, what does any self-respecting red-blooded American woman do? She goes crying to her friends, of course!
What I love about my friends (there is a long list actually, but for brevity’s sake, I’m just choosing one item), is their strong level of support. And since each of my friends is so deliciously unique, that support looks totally different from each one of them.
The conversation goes something like this:
Me: Help me! I don’t know what is wrong with me…I can’t seem to motivate myself to finish this project of blogging. I don’t know why it’s such a big deal…
Cute-nicknamed-will-call-and-call-until-I-finally-answer friend: Look, I have a lot of friends who are ‘blogging’ right now and I just don’t have the time to read them all, frankly. BUT I really enjoyed reading yours…get back to it, k?
Always-knows-nice-thing-to-say friend: Well, maybe you are putting too much pressure on yourself. Try writing just to us and not to the entire world…
Steampunk-diva-always-up-for-a-drink friend: Your mission: two blog posts by Saturday. About anything. Any length. GO!
No-nonsense-blunt-and-truthful friend: Are you serious? Quit your stupid whining and get your butt off of that couch. Sheesh. I don’t have time for this whiney bull-crap. Call me when you have grown a pair and are ready to do some serious work because I have a bunch of stuff for you to do that’s going to change your world. Wimp.
As you can see, with each slice of my ‘friend pie’ (I like to think that it is a beautiful chocolate cream pie…mmmmmm…chocolate), I’ve got the entire support-spectrum just a phone call away.
In our day-and-age (warning! Here comes a ‘when-the-world-was-a-better-place’ soapbox moment), we really have soooooo much to be thankful for. We live in a society that values individual freedoms; we have freedom to express our opinions on all kinds of things without fear of government repercussions; we have access to some of the best healthcare in the world; clean water comes right out of my kitchen faucet; the grocery store right down the street has shelves and shelves of food. I could go on and on with all of the blessings that are all around us, blessings that are often taken for granted – especially on those days where things don’t go the way we want them to.
But the thing that I think we should be the most grateful for are the wonderful people that are in our lives. Those people who love you and support you – through thick and thin, through good times and bad – and who didn’t take an oath to do it. Those people who WANT to share their lives with you and want to share your life. Those people who can lift you up with the tiniest of sentiments…or with no words at all.
Those people we are lucky enough to call our friends…
Be grateful…and tell them you love them…
