Today finally my daughter’s school resumed. She went to school, and I went back to my routine. I love spending time with my daughter, but I also love spending my time alone during the weekday daytime. It is good to get back to the routine.
I want to share one of my small findings.
Two months ago, an old man moved in at the next door across our house. He is in his 70s. He is very friendly and outgoing. He would greet to our neighbors and even approach to them and have a chat. He once did the same to me. When I was taking care of weeding in the front yard, he approached to me and we had a small conversation. He roughly introduced himself. His wife passed away years ago, and all of his grown up children are doing good in other states. He lives alone. He mentioned he wanted to make many friends in this area.
This morning when I walked my daughter to the school bus stop, I saw him taking a walk with his dog. He would stop and chatted with our neighbors here and there (mainly with old men who were around the same age as him). Even on my way back from the bus stop to my house, he was still outside. He was busy on chatting with many other neighbors. It seems he has successful made many friends in this area.
I was impressed on how he has made his efforts on making friends. I appreciate him to show me his efforts. Maybe I needed to see it.
I thought about myself. I don’t have any desire to make new friends on this land so that I don’t make any efforts on making friends anymore. When I created my Facebook account on August 2016, many unknown people applied a “friend request” to me, and I accepted them without thinking. Nowadays I haven’t posted anything in my Facebook for several months. I noticed those people freely unfriended me. That does not make me feel good, but at the same time, that tells me what I need and what I don’t need. It has clarified me I don’t need fake friends.
Maybe sometime in the future, I might change my mind. At least for now, I am comfortable with my life-long friends that I always have.
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