arthur_p_dent

This week knocked me around a bit. Well, a lot.

Things are slowly starting to relax around here (restriction-wise that is). This has finally afforded me the opportunity to actually spend time with people. Had a few friends over one evening - just to sit on the patio and have a drink and shoot the shit. Also got to visit with one of my favourite people - not for very long (read, not for long enough), but enough to make me quite happy. 

I also heard from my friend J this week (I wrote about her a couple months ago). Her first 3 words were “I miss you”. And if you know her in any way, you know she doesn’t make up shit like that - if she says it she means it. That one simple sentence renewed some hope that I was wrong about how our friendship will play out. Time will tell.

Today though, today has me on a bit of a roller coaster. Heard from another friend K. She commented on some random FB post of mine, which ended up sparking a conversation. Afterward I looked back - five months since we last spoke, and only a couple times all last year. This got me thinking, and I started scrolling through contacts, and reading the names of...

Friends I would go to concerts with.
Friends I would play sports with.
Family I would visit.
Coworkers that I’m used to seeing every day, but haven’t seen since November.
People I would normally only see once a year, but I always looked forward to that one visit. 
Etc. Etc. 

That was the “ton of bricks” moment. When I realized just how many people are out there, that I haven’t seen, spoken to, even texted, for longer than I can remember.

I want all these people back in my life.

Today. Today would be good.  =\