Continuing on Friendship

In response to my blog post Friendship, a friend, who recently moved from the true Zion, DC, to that other Zion, Utah, posted a comment to which I wish to reply. The comment:

... The hardest thing about leaving Virginia was leaving the lifetime of friends I felt I had amassed over the 7+ years I was there. I wonder now if I'm too old to make more friendships like those.

I don't think you're ever too old. I sometimes wonder, though, if we get too tired, too set in our lives to make new friendships.

I'm in the process of building a few new friendships and have been reminded that it does indeed take work. Some people don't get my sarcasm until we've been around each another for a while. The necessary sifting and digging through our lives, until we find that common bond that will endure the test of time, covers us in a layer of dust, I think, to remind us that friendships are not something to be taken lightly. There will be times when we are grimy head-to-toe and a connection won't be made. Yet, there are still people in our lives to whom we have opened our hearts, and they theirs, with whom we can share great joys, great sorrows, great heartaches, and great delights.

In your case, Sara, I'd go with the tired. Have the baby then worry about meeting new people. You're too great a person not to be known.