Back in 2000, I started talking to a guy in a bar sitting next to me. It was just simple small talk, but then we were both quickly caught up on the Timmy/Jimmy fight on South Park. Being the only ones in the entire bar laughing our asses off, a friendship quickly formed.
This friendship lasted 7 years and then was quickly abollished for reasons no longer important.
A few months ago, I found myself saddled up to another bar watching another tv screen and discover this same guy sitting next to me. So many things have changed over the last 3 years of our banished friendship, yet so many things were left unaltered. After a brief and awkward bout of apologies and regrets, the laughing and joking started up again.
We've met up a few times since and it's good to feel that old friendship reshaping itself.
Last night we pounded back a few drinks, shared more than enough hardy laughs and walked home together. We stopped in his place, sat and talked a bit more in the back garden, had another beer and I headed on my way.
It feels good to have my friend back...
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Building Back the Walls ...
It's been 9 months since posting on here and, looking back on my last couple of entries, it seems like a lifetime...
Please ignore the last 2 postings. That relationship is over.
We're trying to remain friends...
It's hard...
Trust is a terrible thing to lose, but when it's taken away, it's like removing one's spine and you're left with nowhere to turn without falling completely in on yourself.
The walls were up before this past relationship and the walls will go back up again. It's so much easier to keep people at bay than it is to wear your heart on your sleeve and jump into a scolding hot copper pot filled with mistrust and betrayal like ingredients to a bad stew.
The last eight months were not as bad as that last paragraph may have lead. It was just a one-sided relationship and apparently I was on the wrong side.
Who knows if I'll ever meet someone again. I never really thought I'd meet this person and I did. I still remember that very first meeting like it was yesterday. I played hard to get that night.
I sometimes wish I had only played harder...
Please ignore the last 2 postings. That relationship is over.
We're trying to remain friends...
It's hard...
Trust is a terrible thing to lose, but when it's taken away, it's like removing one's spine and you're left with nowhere to turn without falling completely in on yourself.
The walls were up before this past relationship and the walls will go back up again. It's so much easier to keep people at bay than it is to wear your heart on your sleeve and jump into a scolding hot copper pot filled with mistrust and betrayal like ingredients to a bad stew.
The last eight months were not as bad as that last paragraph may have lead. It was just a one-sided relationship and apparently I was on the wrong side.
Who knows if I'll ever meet someone again. I never really thought I'd meet this person and I did. I still remember that very first meeting like it was yesterday. I played hard to get that night.
I sometimes wish I had only played harder...
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