Hmmmm... Ok so here's what happened today. Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you have NO friends? After asking 3 different people to lunch (all were busy) I decided to eat by myself. Is that weird? It felt fine to me, to be quite honest. I went to a cool restaurant, sat on a big sofa by a fireplace, and had lunch and wrote. I'm writing a "talk" for a women's event I'm doing in Pennsylvania in May. Totally out of my element but maybe I'm getting the hang of this. I'm going to incorporate my songs through out the sessions so that I'm 1/2 running my yap and 1/2 singing. :) Should break up the monotony...make things a little more exciting...in my opinion, anyway.
So, back to the "I have no friends" issue. I went to a party last fall where there were hundreds of people I "knew" yet I sat by myself and ate with my kids. How can you know so many people yet feel so alone and out of place somewhere? Strange. My husband likes to remind me that he's the only "real" friend that matters (ha ha) and I kind of get his point. He is not a people-person, however, and would prefer only one friend to many. I love being around friends and especially people that make me laugh. "Fun friends" I like to call them. As opposed to boring friends? Hmmm....who has boring friends? Are you really friends if you think they are a drag? I am totally rambling but the whole "friends"thing always weighs heavy on me. I have expectations when it comes to my friends but I don't necessarily hold the same standard to myself. Like the old saying..." to have a friend you have to BE a friend" or something like that. I think I'm not the greatest when it comes to calling all the time and checking in. But I do LOVE to buy them lunch. Does that count for anything?
Well, enough said on that. I will add that growing up I always felt like I had more guy friends than girl-friends. Too much drama with women, eh? Ha ha! Of course I wouldn't know ANYTHING about drama, now would I??? :) (wink)
2 comments:
Oh no you know nothing about any kind of drama hahah.... I didn't even know you had a blog and plus it is hard to keep track with all your other links.... hahah You are you probably thinking ... Jules is the only one that actually cares but I know there are more out there! love you Karen Fisher
Why the heck didn't you call me to eat lunch with you.
What a LOSER eating all alone. :) Karen sometimes it's good to do things alone. I went to a movie alone on 2 occasions and I honestly didn't feel weird at all.
Of course that beats going to see a chick flick with Gary who gets up and goes to the bathroom and walks around for 15 minutes at a time or just goes to sleep.
Why is eating out so hard to do alone? I can't ever remember seeing someone eating alone and thinking, "Oh, poor soul, they have no friends."
So now I'm left thinking.............Karen thinks I'm no fun or she would've called me to go eat lunch with her. SOOOOO SAD! :) Girl you kill me!
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