Friends

I have been recently reminded just how important friends are and even though you may notv see your friends for years they are still your friends.

Over the last couple of years the boy and I have been focused on our work and careers, often to the detriment of our friends. We tend to see the same people over and over again and can lose contact with friends that we don't see on a regular basis.

It's normal I suppose, but I know that I should be making much more of an effort. Some of our friends live in far flung countries around the world and through circumstance we just simply don't get to travel to all the places in the world I would like to.

But I know with our international friends, it would only take a few minutes of being together before it would be the same old wonderful friendship it was the last time we were all together.

However some of our friends who we have not seen in a while live within minutes of us.

A good friend made an interesting comment to me a few weeks ago. He said that for a long time he felt like he was making all the effort to see us.

I thought about it and agreed that yes he had been making all the invitations and organising all the dinners, lunches etc. I went away and thought about this, and while I agreed that yes he had been the one making the invitations, but that didn't mean we were not appreciative of the effort.

It's a time and sanity issue. We both tend to work quite long hours, though we both tend to do more work from home than in our respective offices so we can spend more time with each other, instead of spending it int he confines of a boring office.

A lot of people do mistake us being at home for being "free" or "available".

Nonetheless I have decided that I do need to make more of an effort to make sure I see all of our friends on a more regulara basis.

7:26:00 AM