All the sayings in the lower left corner of my web site are of my own creation, and the one that holds the place of honor currently made me smile. I’d written it several months ago, before I moved from business associate category to friend category with a certain woman in St. Joseph.
This woman will be called X, since she may not take to having our newly minted friendship used as coinage on the Internet. But I mean it as a compliment. We had lunch together earlier this week, and there was a feeling of wanting to know more about each other, wanting to do things together with mates, wanting to be there when the going gets tough. That’s what I mean by a good friend.
As we age, it becomes more and more a challenge to meet new people and turn them into close friends. But, as my current thought for the week and my recent experience indicate, it can be done. Otherwise, we’ll be left with an acutely declining Christmas card list in the years to come.
I have no tried and true recipe on how to make friendship happen, other than to be open to the idea. And to give the friendship time. X and I have known each other almost five years, but it’s only recently that we have let our hair down and shared the common places in our lives.
For several years, instead of making a New Year’s resolution, I’ve made a list of goals in December for the following year. Every year I’ve given myself the task of making one new, good friend. X is my special friend for 2005. And I hope she reads this too.
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