This post is dedicated to that woman who has come in my life recently and has helped me in more ways than I care mention.
Friends are like diamonds they say precious and difficult to find. I can not agree more!
For as long as I remember, I never really had a friend, a best friend that is, with whom to share all my difficulties and joys. A friend who listens without judging or trying to help even when clearly you can't.
My first awareness of this lack was in secondary school where I was part of a group but not really with them. It acutely felt terrible knowing none of those girls can be called friends in that intimate sense. When later after 10 years or so we had a reunion, I realised how little I had known of my own isolation... it hurt even though so many years had passed.
I tried to find that special friends for many years, but I got to mistrust people to the point that I always kept back a lot and so my trying wasn't good enough since I myself kept everyone at a distance.
Kids change you! I have a special cousin who fills this gap nowadays. Recently though I have been blessed with another such wonderful soul. It was unlikely we'd ever be friends or anything at first glance; but family matters and work brought us together and I would never change this for anything in the world. She listens in silence if there is nothing else she can offer, she guides me in difficult times, she helps when I feel overwhelmed.
I want to thank you for being such a wonderful friend to me. My burden is not as heavy since you appeared in my life. I look forward to meet up or chat online. We laugh and cry and it feels really good.
May your life be blessed with lots of love, peace and joy.
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Of diamonds and friends
This post is dedicated to that woman who has come in my life recently and has helped me in more ways than I care mention.
Friends are like diamonds they say precious and difficult to find. I can not agree more!
For as long as I remember, I never really had a friend, a best friend that is, with whom to share all my difficulties and joys. A friend who listens without judging or trying to help even when clearly you can't.
My first awareness of this lack was in secondary school where I was part of a group but not really with them. It acutely felt terrible knowing none of those girls can be called friends in that intimate sense. When later after 10 years or so we had a reunion, I realised how little I had known of my own isolation... it hurt even though so many years had passed.
I tried to find that special friends for many years, but I got to mistrust people to the point that I always kept back a lot and so my trying wasn't good enough since I myself kept everyone at a distance.
Kids change you! I have a special cousin who fills this gap nowadays. Recently though I have been blessed with another such wonderful soul. It was unlikely we'd ever be friends or anything at first glance; but family matters and work brought us together and I would never change this for anything in the world. She listens in silence if there is nothing else she can offer, she guides me in difficult times, she helps when I feel overwhelmed.
I want to thank you for being such a wonderful friend to me. My burden is not as heavy since you appeared in my life. I look forward to meet up or chat online. We laugh and cry and it feels really good.
May your life be blessed with lots of love, peace and joy.
Friends are like diamonds they say precious and difficult to find. I can not agree more!
For as long as I remember, I never really had a friend, a best friend that is, with whom to share all my difficulties and joys. A friend who listens without judging or trying to help even when clearly you can't.
My first awareness of this lack was in secondary school where I was part of a group but not really with them. It acutely felt terrible knowing none of those girls can be called friends in that intimate sense. When later after 10 years or so we had a reunion, I realised how little I had known of my own isolation... it hurt even though so many years had passed.
I tried to find that special friends for many years, but I got to mistrust people to the point that I always kept back a lot and so my trying wasn't good enough since I myself kept everyone at a distance.
Kids change you! I have a special cousin who fills this gap nowadays. Recently though I have been blessed with another such wonderful soul. It was unlikely we'd ever be friends or anything at first glance; but family matters and work brought us together and I would never change this for anything in the world. She listens in silence if there is nothing else she can offer, she guides me in difficult times, she helps when I feel overwhelmed.
I want to thank you for being such a wonderful friend to me. My burden is not as heavy since you appeared in my life. I look forward to meet up or chat online. We laugh and cry and it feels really good.
May your life be blessed with lots of love, peace and joy.
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