In this blog, I want to share some thoughts i've had brewing in my mind lately. Mainly due to a few recent events involving my friends. It proves that time can fly too fast for you to grasp sometimes..and often ends with a few consequences and regrets. I want to begin this article with some food for thought for anyone reading that i encourage you to cherish any friends and family or other people close or dear to you each day why? because they could be gone any time..God may choose to take them away today, next week next year or many years ahead..that's why my dear friends..you should always stay in touch with your best friends..i havent always been this way, and i admit i feel very bad for neglecting some of my first and close friends..namely those from a forum for homeschooled kids called THH. but this story comes later..to start off i want to reflect on a troubling thought on a friend of mine whom i havent heard from in quite some time now. Her name is Marta. she was one of my good friends i met on myspace from italy. Of course i never met her in person but she was a good friend. she would leave me commnets always and i her, and i'd look forward to seeing them..and hearing from her. Up until November she wrote me quite frequently. after then it started to slow but she had told me that she would be busy with her studies. The last message if memory serves me correctly was in December, she had sent me a myspace message and told me all about her life, and that she was studying business at a university in Venice. and also that she had a new boyfriend and asked me about my boyfriend..and we exchanged msn addresses..after then we talked a few time there and after January i stopped hearing from her altogether. Just thinking she was busy again i dint take too much notice of it, but a few months after her myspace account dissapeared, as did her msn and email leaving me no way to get in touch. After this i began to worry..more and more about her and if she was okay and to this day i still do. I've been praying for God to show me a sign which i know may take time but i have faith. I'd love to know how and where she is. Which leads me to the next part of this compelling blog. One night i was awake in bed thinking, just contemplating on an earlier news story about the flooding in the Midwest..which struck a bell about one of my old but good friends form THH..Josh . at the time i still thought he lived in iowa(where the floods had hit heavily) because thats where he lived at the last time i talked to him..so this event made me quite scared i must admit. i started to become more and more concerned, wondering if he was okay and all and his family as well. So the next day, i got on the computer visited THH..which then came the realization that he was 24 this year and that was the date THH had set for his account to be deleted..which made me panic slightly but not for long because my mind immediately remembred he was moderator of an RPG forum which a year ago he told me if i ever needed anything from him to contact him there, as he would always be on that forum..which immediately i entred the link to my browser address box and searched the forum memberlist and luckily found his username! I saw his email and msn and then added him to my contcats hoping for a reply which i got the next day and was sooo thankful for! Anyways we caught up to life and i learned he had been through many trials and hardships..all of which i never knew before simply bacasue i was too ignorant to stay in touch with him..and keep up with the THH(which i kinda forgot because i just turned 20 and felt too old for it) I just felt so bad for him because i wasnt there when he needed me most! I bear a cross that is difficult that makes me feel i neglected him and all..at a desprate time of need when he was experiencing deaths, job changes, moves and friends turning their backs on him! if i knew this i wouldnt have forgotten about him..but it shows you just how much a year can change a person's life for the better or worse. And taught me that it is utterly important to stay in contcat with all your friends..because they may not be here tomorrow or a year from now. It makes me realize just how precious they are..and that i need to seriously keep in touch with my friends old and new.
I am just so glad josh is alright..i pray the same for Marta.
i wont neglect him or any of my friends ever again.
just some thoughts and feelings i needed to express on paper (and Web pages) :-)
God Bless, and take time for your friends. youll be glad you did
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