Monday Morning

Just got off the phone with one of my dearest friends who has to have back surgery to fix a bulging disk. The news is sad to hear but at the same time great that we had a great long conversation about everything we have missed out on in each others lives as of late. Which leads me to one of my new goals: do a better job maintaining current relationships. I want to create new history with people I have known a long time so that we are more than just old friends. It has been a very strange journey these last many years and all the moving around and change that has gone on in my life has put the focus back on my personal relationships and how important it is to me that those remain up to date and healthy. There are many different kinds of friends with a wide range of closeness and familiarity and it is not always easy to make sure you are keeping up with the ones that are the most precious to you. I had a conversation with a longtime friend of mine about how lucky we are to know the people we do and how we need to utilize each others talents to figure out and challenge each other on how we are living and what we are living for. Life for my generation has been much different than that of most of our parents and much less clear on what and more importantly how you are supposed to do things especially for those of us who's parents are not in any position to council us on our lives when they have a hard enough time with their own. I have no conclusions only questions and ideas that are ever changing.