Friends

I spend a fair amount of time on social media applications keeping up with and exploring friendships from around the country and a couple from other parts of the world. Recently I have been conversing with a woman living in one of the New England states who started to follow me out of the blue. What prompted me to follow her back had less to do with her appearance as it did with what she had previously posted.

About once a week, I get unsolicited requests from young women who appear to be just starting out. They usually have very few posts and in those posts, they are wearing very few clothes. The word provocative comes to mind. It’s as if they are inviting me to indulge in… shall we say, less than a “family” friendly behavior. This newest friend posted some really nice photos – post card quality – of places I have not been but would like to.

Nice woman, so far. Let’s see where this goes.

I wrote an Email using my Google Email account this afternoon. It drove the editorial feature batty. By the end of the process, the editor said that I had made several major mistakes. What the editor didn’t take into consideration is that I write a lot like I talk. Way to go, Google editor. I may just bypass Google the next time I do an Email. For the most part, I use Yahoo, sometimes the former Hotmail. Neither of them care much about how I post.

With the addition of the woman living in New England, I’m finding I have lots of friends I am in contact with all over the country. One of my friends, someone I knew from high school, pointed out that many of our friends are “Bookmark” friends. There are long periods when we have no contact, but when something comes up, we’re on the phone or on the internet jabbering away as if our last meeting was yesterday.

Sometimes those are the best friends to have.

Then, too, there are those friends you find by accident. While I was working with a couple a few years ago, the woman remarked that I have a radio voice. She asked if I had worked in radio locally. I told her that I worked mostly in southern Ohio, She almost immediately told me that she listened to me on a station I had worked for. Seems that her younger brother and I were running buddies back in the day. We get together on a semi-regular basis, although with COVID, we haven’t seen or heard from each other as often. I know that I will hear from her husband, though, almost as soon as I post this on the internet.

No matter how a friend comes into your life, a friend is nice to have around… and sometimes the least likely people are the best friends. What makes a friendship is having common interests and/or common goals. I’m finding that to be true, especially now that I’m in the final third of my life.

Here’s to more friends!

Be Seeing You!