what to blog about eh? i could complain about how penelope no longer has love for the blog. some of you don't even know who this delightful personage is. this saddens me. i've actually been feeling mopey about friends lately- not that one has to have a calvacade of them in a 5 mile radius of your house but it certainly helps. i have more non-specific complaints but i can't really articulate them. although i heard from 2 people in one day that i wished we lived closer. i agree. and i'm glad other friends have had the same thoughts as me. since i tend to be the possessive one. because it's good to have the everyday friend. and you feel demanding when in the back of your mind you know you want them to be an everyday friend but somehow you know it's just not going to work out that way - as those friendships are rare and usually can't last for long periods of time- but when they're there you have more fun. you're more productive. you laugh more... maybe i'm just idealizing this whole thing. but friends are fantastic and they should never be taken for granted- i think too often people have the attitude of take it or leave it in friendship, if something isn't working then the friend is no longer working for you, if you're not married to them then well they're easily dismissable- i'll just get another one. and after a lifetime of one friendship after another falling by the way because they're no longer priorities or they made you mad once- is horribly tragic.
if i had an everyday friend i might eventually learn french. but you everyweek friends are fantastic too. don't think that i don't appreciate you.
2 comments:
mendacious said...
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
"Have no friends not equal to yourself." - Confucious (551 - 497 BC)
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." - Samuel Johnson
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides, Greek playwright
"Little do men percieve what solitue is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." - Francis Bacon
"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"A true friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
You said it!
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