Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
We don’t just try in life. We live life. Today I spent a good portion of the last two hours talking to friends that I have had in my life for some time. Seemingly the majority of my friends are have gone through a bind or are in the midst of one with a relationship with health.
I just got off the phone wish a good friend of mine by the name of Sid. Sid is the only one out of all of us that has went through things and is currently. And yet at the same time his wife has not left him. His entire existence is based on what is and the allowance of what is practical in life. Sid owned a large bar and grill and he had to shut it down. His wife stayed with him. Her name is Michele.
He has a situation medically that he is attending too and within this month hopefully it will be rectified. We talked for one hour and he resides in another city and I asked him what keeps him going. He said “Jack we are not rock star wannabe’s no more”. Ironically I laughed as he and I are on the same page. We know this. He was talking about Aikido and how much he has heard of a special seminar going on right now in a city called Calgary. He mentioned to me that after his surgery, he was going to call me and look into joining into it. We talked about so many things from the Olympics, to what we have done. His wife came on the telephone and started joking along with us and at the end of our discussion I said to Sid. You have it made. He asked why, I told him that you have the same wife from long ago and in the last year of this journey of mine I have seen more divorces taking place. He told me that regardless of what may be happening in life, life is not about image, it’s about simply life. 
He is a good friend, I have yet to take a trip and see him but I can honestly say that he is one friend that I met when I was 19. And while everyone trying to be something more than what they were, we were humbly doing our own thing. I look forward to meeting Sid after he has his operation. Yet you would never know it.
That is life. And I think that we so wish to be more than what we are at times.
Perhaps just being is worth so much in life itself. In no manner is this doom or gloom. We all, yes we all have someting that takes place in life as we age. But the most important thing is in how we deal with it. I think I am on a new wave of thinking...better yet a return of how I see things from my own vantage.
I had a few good friends back in Massachusetts . We used to do alot when we grew up during our high school days . Then we kinda grew apart for a few years . Even though , we only lived 10 or 15 minutes away from each other . Our lives changed . We met other friends , and so forth .
ReplyDeleteBut once a year , we would meet up again , with our old and current friends , and just chill out . Have a BBQ or pool party .
Kind of like Mulitply , we brought our friends , and they brought their's . And so on ...
It was cool back in 1997 !
I can relate. And when you can make that call and within seconds be talking on the same page. It makes for much meaning. Life is "cool" and life has worth. We all see it in our own manner and way. I have my way and you have yours but within it all we all have a connection. Perhaps I have opened up earlier before in an authentic manner, but that is me. Nothing is fabricated nor pushed.
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing in life I find at this stage is change and how we adapt with it. In a mature manner. Peace there Unforgettablegift.
It's all about how we choose to react to the events in our life---isn't it, Jack? Good, bad, struggle, ease it all comes to everyone in different times and ways...how they handle each is the making of the person and their character. We're all still on the journey...no matter which part of the path we travel at the moment (soft or rocky.)
ReplyDeleteGood for your friend Sid--that he sees things as he does---and good for you and he to remain friends and be able to reflect together after all these years.
Friends truly do make the good times better and share the load in the bad times. A treasure in our lives is a good friend---even one is worth their weight in gold! (Olympic or otherwise... :-) )
Our friends seem to be some kind of roots to us. Wherever we are, there is a connection that remains and it seems when we need to think things through, they often are good to be around and by reflecting together, we often get a better understanding of our own positions or feelings about situations we are going through. All in all, just knowing we have friends is great in itself. Thanks for sharing. All the best to Sid, and sweet dreams to you.
ReplyDeleteSid is within my pic's he is older now as am I, but the path is one that we all do in our own way. And it's true with regards to friends. Friends are there in good times, hard times and other wise. Friends are full of worth. I do have many good things to say with regards to his wife. As she never left him while I saw so many others currently and in the past go through such situations. She is worth gold as is he. Such is life in the realm in which we live. And we thrive in our own way. Yes thrive....reference to the olympics would be one example....:)
ReplyDeleteConnections and whom we trust and whom we find that we can associate with. I think that life is with a respect and a regard. Reflections are areas are done more so as we age, but at the same time we age slowly.....very slow! :), yet realistically understanding our placement.
ReplyDeleteLove, platonic and romantic is to be treasured. In this vastly cynical world that we live in it is easy to forget this. Thank you for the reminder Jack.
ReplyDeleteI feel that it's just the way it is in many manners. I don't think I am the only one that feels this way - yet within it all there is worth.
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