I want you here, I want you present and available… but when you are here I have my own priorities.
That’s reality. Isn’t it!
There is such a delicate balance between putting your hopes and desires on the line and have them depend on someone else meeting you half way, fulfilling your needs basically. In friendship we learn to respect boundaries and at the same time express a desire and an eagerness to connect, to spend time, to enjoy each other’s company.
We all have that friend who can never come together because of work. And sometimes we shrug it off, sometimes we try to help them, sometimes they need an intervention.
Other times it seems that those who have the hardest circumstances seem to be able to make it to promised meetings. While others take it lightly.
Everyone has priorities. These can be: our parents, our new jobs, our dogs, our kids, our best friends, our spouse, our long term friends, our family friends…
Regardless. Socializing just for the sake of socializing is not our cup of tea. For Conrad and me. I don’t think it ever was. But now our energy and resources are thinly spread having become parents. We are not as eager to talk about nothing. And parenting conversations are boring to many. Though I find I have the most enthralling conversations with customers here in the states: about history, traveling, food, technology, church, family, adventure, dreams becoming reality…