The other day on Facebook I made a remark about how I need to be a better person. I was not saying that because I think I am a bad person. Quite the contrary. I think I'm pretty good person overall. What I was referring to is I need to/want to be better about keeping up with people. Yes, I write letters which I love to do but this is different. Once upon a time I really kept up with people in my life and I knew what was going on in theirs. I don't really know those kinds of things anymore. I want to work on that. There are a lot of people who were in my life decades ago that I just let those relationships slip through my fingers. Nothing happened to cause that other than time and separation. I let too much time go by and when I search for them, they are no longer living. I just hate that I do that. I googled someone I knew when I was around 18 and his obituary was the first thing that came up. It is just a deflating experience when I learn things like this. I don't know why, but it is. Another friend that I was once very close to passed away of cancer several years ago and I never even knew she was sick. A mutual friend told me sometime over the past year. It's just things like that I would like to improve on. I realize that keeping up with people is a two-way street but I want to make sure that I am doing my part.
That is all.
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