Wheeeeee!So things are going pretty well at the moment (aside from the weather, which is nice and all, but it's a trifle too stifly. My favourite seasons are spring and autumn, when you can rely on things to be just that little bit drizzly and gloomy, but not too hot or too cold. Hmm, perhaps that is a pathetic fallacy though. Anyway, too much interstitial rambling, but I
am British, and I am claiming justification on that ground alone). I am pretty much on an even keel and happy and productive at work.
I saw two sets of old friends last week, both sets of whom (hmm, not sure about that) have known me well over a decade (and in relation to the first set, 20 years. Gasp). It's strange the way that it's clear that one's become a different person since then, but indefinably still the same. I think that was most clear with the university friends, partly because I haven't seen them for longest, whereas I've always met up with the other group intermittently, although we'd fallen a little out of touch. The great thing about old friends is, of course, that you always remember each others' mistakes (and curse them for even remembering the names of my mistakes!), but somehow they've all passed into the mists of time, and have become funny. We laughed now about waiting in whilst at University for the phone to ring. Perhaps my memory is better; it wasn't remotely funny at the time.
Which is not remotely to say that I hanker after only old friends, or the person I was when I first met them. I don't want to be that person any more anyway, and I don't think I could get her back if I tried. No, I cherish the new friends equally (and sometimes more) than the old friends; it's the new friends in my life, particularly this year, who have given me the confidence to see that I am not the person I once was, but that I've gone on and fulfilled a lot of my potential, which the old friends sometimes (but not always; they had their issues too!) told me I had.
So, all told, hurrah for friendship, old, new and still to come. Thanks, guys!
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