Hey, friend, some of us have very fond memories of you in college! Though you may have thought yourself rigid, I always appreciated that you accepted me, quirks and all... and we didn't always agree on things. And I wasn't always the friend I should/could have been.
I do identify with your feelings about the shadow of yourself from the past. My sister and I were just talking about that this weekend, while we were down in VA at Dad's place. We are struggling to find a way to relate to each other as adults now... we're both very different people than we were when we were kids, but somehow, though we know that about ourselves, we can't allow the other out of the "box" we had put them in years and years ago (the overbearing older sister, the tempermental younger sister). Ugh. It's hard. I admire your transparency here. And I hope you know how much I have appreciated your friendship over the years. You're a wonderful woman, truly.
Anna
· 1 year ago
Thanks, KAS! We're never the friends we think we should be. I appreciated the time we spent together, regardless.
Brenda
· 1 year ago
Anna, this was wonderful. I've had similar feelings recently after discovering Facebook, and realizing that on some stupid level, I *still* feel bad when Marco Lowe doesn't laugh at my jokes, even after (gulp) twenty years. I also have to confess to a little rush of glee when I realized that if four certain young women from the NTHS symphonic band attempt to befriend me, I can ignore them with one click, which is way easier than ignoring them when they're hanging over the backs of their chairs to whisper to each other, glancing at me and tittering.
I had to laugh (albeit a little ruefully) at the school spirit comment ... that somehow hit the nail right on the head.
Great, now I have a Veggie Tales song stuck in my head: "I can be your friiiieeend, I can be your friiiieeend, if your hair is red or yellow, we can be friends, I'll share my Jello!" ((((hugs)))))
(I'm not on Yahoo right now, by the way, but the email I used here is one I check fairly regularly.)
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I do identify with your feelings about the shadow of yourself from the past. My sister and I were just talking about that this weekend, while we were down in VA at Dad's place. We are struggling to find a way to relate to each other as adults now... we're both very different people than we were when we were kids, but somehow, though we know that about ourselves, we can't allow the other out of the "box" we had put them in years and years ago (the overbearing older sister, the tempermental younger sister). Ugh. It's hard. I admire your transparency here. And I hope you know how much I have appreciated your friendship over the years. You're a wonderful woman, truly.
I had to laugh (albeit a little ruefully) at the school spirit comment ... that somehow hit the nail right on the head.
Great, now I have a Veggie Tales song stuck in my head: "I can be your friiiieeend, I can be your friiiieeend, if your hair is red or yellow, we can be friends, I'll share my Jello!" ((((hugs)))))
(I'm not on Yahoo right now, by the way, but the email I used here is one I check fairly regularly.)