unless you are the one with the broken heart!
I do not ever wish to appear unsympathetic especially not when I have so many friends with serious health issues for whom I pray every day.
But, if you have your health and your heart is broken, it is difficult to be upbeat and positive about the direction of life.
One thing I know for sure, the best medicine is to stay too damn busy to think about who is missing in the everyday. If someone else is calling, or texting or e-mailing, its easier to overlook that he isn't. Even better is live conversation, you know, the old fashioned kind where you're sitting across from a friend and exchanging ideas, or recipes, or punch lines.
So far I have signed up for a new Bible study at church, joined a photography club (even though they are very silly and I'm not much of a photographer), visited friends, read several good books, especially the most recent Tess Gerritson. I regularly spend my Friday nights having good food with good buddies in Millican. All my girls, daughters, in-laws and grand, have kept talking to me even if they're sick of hearing my "sad story."
I have gotten my flu shot, which may be what gave me a first time ever case of hives. I found out that the Navasota Hospital has a great emergency room with new facilities and very kind nurse and doctor. I don't love the emotional roller coaster resulting from the steriod shot (only I would get weepy instead of rage!) but I am very glad to itch no more.
Maybe proof reading this will make me aware of how very fortunate I really am. Maybe I was right all those years when I made no effort at all to have any "relationship" with any man.
And, maybe he will call ....
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I like Tess Gerritsen's novels also. Just don't ask me to discuss them with you, since I read so much of that stuff that it is all a blur. I haven't really read her older "medical" thrillers, just the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series. Which did you just read? The last one I read was The Bone Garden, so I need to catch up with The Mephisto Club.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Sally.
ReplyDeleteSally, if it's any consolation, I totally understand what you are saying. Yes, if one looks at the big picture, we have much to be thankful for. However, it would be nice to be able to share these blessings with a mate. Email & texting are great tools but can never replace sitting across from a person and just talking. Alas, that form of communication seems to be going the route as a hand written letter. Maybe we are dinosaures and just don't know it????
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