A strange thing is happening with my facebook account. I am coming in contact with old HS friends, friends that i have not connected with in over 30 years! Now i have these 2 new categories in my life and my friends:
1. "friends" on FB that are not really friends, heck some i don't even know!
2. "friends" that i once knew, but now do not.
Now the first category i'm cool with. Just a way for networks to connect and a part of the FB world. it is the second category that has me confused. These are peeps that i once knew and some very well, but that now i really do not know or even recognize some of them (i am sure the same is true of me since i then had long red hair and now have none....LOL).
This became really clear this last week when an old girlfriend contacted me thru facebook. It was great to hear from her and all, but it brought up some strange stuff in me....
The first thing i wanted to do was apologize. I was such a selfish jerk in HS....really. Totally consumed with what i wanted and what was good for me. Every relationship had so much selfishness behind it that i am embarrassed of how i treated folks...I ignored many, used some...like i said, i was a JERK!
Second, I know how to talk to peeps i know---how do i talk with peeps i ONCE KNEW? There is so much to catch up on....so much we don't know from the 30 years! Choices made, college memories, marriages, children born, parent's deaths, career changes....it just goes on and on....you get the pic.
Third, was a welling up of thanksgiving in my soul for how good my life has turned out. I was raised in a non-christian home full of alcohol, violence and poverty. My life has turned out so good! Psalms 16:6--"The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places..." is sooooo true for me. I have a wife that i'm crazy in love with (and who loves me), healthy children that have grown up into good men, great job, work with awesome people, it is just great! (most of the time....lol)
To be almost 53, healthy and in love with the God I serve, the life i live and the people i live and work with is such a great blessing. All praise to You, O Great God!!
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