Secondhand Lions & Keeping Touch
I wrote the following post on May 25th but was so busy in the few days I had in Burbank that I didn’t get a chance to even post it to this page…
So I just saw the movie Secondhand Lions and it was a pretty good one. If you haven’t seen it I really recommend it. There are very few movies that I can honestly say that I like and this is one of them. It didn’t hurt that the movie gave me something to do while I formatted my mom’s computer and reinstalled everything on there. Then again its my fault I had to even do that since I left her computer wide open without any firewall protection from the 7 gajillion worms and viruses for Windows that have been out in the past few months.
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Its so hard to keep in touch with people. There are a lot of people I’d like to keep in touch with. To begin with, I have a whole gamut of relatives who I barely see anymore because I’m barely ever in town. These people have grown old and some of them had children and they’ve grown old. It makes me sad that I can’t see all the people more often.
There are also of course some friends that I don’t stay in touch with or talk to as often as I’d like. But we all know how it is, everybody is busy with school and work. People’s schedules don’t really match the other’s for downtime. In all the stress and hubub of the day-to-day stuff we sometimes forget a lot of people. I do it and I’m sure a lot of you do too. I don’t know how to avoid it but it makes me sad. I only hope that the others understand and that the few chances that we do have to spend time with one another or talk to each other, that we make it count. We should not be bitter over why this person has not contacted me for so long but instead be interested in what has kept them so busy. That’s all of course if you know the person to be a true person. For those fake people who will say hi and ask questions they’re not interested in hearing the answers to, just let them be along their fake uninterested ways.
To anybody who reads this, if you don’t already, stay in touch. And if I’ve done a bad job of it, let me know what a loser I’ve been and I’ll do the same. Friends and family, people you care about and who care about you, are the most important things in our lives. Well, in my life anyway.