This morning I was privileged to be able to spend some time on the profile of my friend here, and he has created, through his posts, an environment of peace, calm, and tranquility. It is like being transported to another place and time. A place where everything disappears except the music he posts, the words he writes. It is beautiful and healing. Now I have to get back to my world, where it is noisy, chaotic, and full of anxiety and worry. I am kinda feeling like I am a whiplash victim.😅
It is so nice to have friends. I haven't had any for so long, I forgot how very important friends are. ❤
This is the kind of friends I have here, and you all mean more to me than you will ever know. 🤗
Dang woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where do you find these memes? This is the second one you posted that says things that are so dead on. See I have, in R/L, a very small circle of friends. I was thinking the other day that it turns out most of them have known me over 20 to 30 years. We have absent spells sometimes lasting decades but when we do get back together it is like they were never gone. But the most heart warming thing I realized about these people is that they have never tried to get me to be anything less than me. That's huge for someone who didn't even like their self for many of those years. So yeah, that meme is gold.
@DainbramadgeI just find them on Google search. Sometimes you have to scroll a while to find the good ones, though.🙂
I don't have any friends offline, but I have family, and they are the same as your friends. They not only accept me the way I am but most are just like me...🙃
No joking though, it has been my grandchildren(whom we adopted so they are our children) that have really been trying to teach me to celebrate who I am. They tell me being "different" is good and being "normal" is sooo overrated. They also say, "Who decided this normal thing, and were they normal?" My kids crack me up sometimes.😅
I completely understand not liking yourself, but for what it is worth, I have always found you a very likable person. 🙂
@WildMountainRose You are so sweet. :-). Thank you for that. That stuff your kids are saying is so heart warming. I always wanted kids simply because I knew I could be way better of a parent to my own kids than mine were to me. They have not disappointed me in the least.
One thing that sticks in my head and heart was my 15 year old boy one night we were out getting his night time driving hours in for drivers training. I thought it was a good time to have a heart to heart. So one thing I asked him that had been on my mind since he was around 10 years old was.. "Does it bother you that I have been in jail so many times?" Without any hesitation he replied, "It was only three times." LOL. So I told him " You do realize that is about 200% more than 90% of the population have been right?." Man kids are so awesome.
@DainbramadgeYour son sounds like he takes after you in the caring department. He just loves you, and that is all that is important. 🙂
I moved to the town I am in now because my uncle was in the Pen here, my son was in a few years back, and my brother is in now. Sometimes, the world just doesn't understand the ones that dance to the beat of a different drummer. That doesn't make us bad people. In fact, most of the good people I have known have been reprimanded by society in some way. State mental institutions, jails, pens, or had their own trial and tribulations. It makes us have far more empathy than those who don't suffer.
