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| Thread ID: 68791 | 2006-05-11 00:03:00 | beetle post.............rambles | beetle (243) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 453965 | 2006-05-11 04:47:00 | Beet - in my experience most people have at most, 4 or 5 friends at any point in their lives. Everyone else are acquaintances. Or family. Treasure your real friends. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 453966 | 2006-05-11 05:17:00 | I have hundreds of numbers in my phonelist, more than my fone will store. I think i could count those i consoder truly close on one hand. Such is life, allthough there has been some serious pruning over the last year or so. It amazes me the amount of self proclaimed "best friends" who fail to remain "best friends" when one ceases to be useful to them, when one knows something they would rather deny, or when they are simply bored. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 453967 | 2006-05-11 06:14:00 | True friends are few and far between beetle and they are often more help to you than family. Count yourself lucky if to have more than one that you can truly rely on, no matter what. I grew up with a guy from a very young age, we did everything together, got into scrapes, learned about the perfidy of women (or so we thought), went flatting together, got drunk together, cleaned up after each other, *cough* converted our first car together (put it back where we found it when finished with it, how stupid was that?) and I though he would be a brother for life. Then he fell for a perfidious woman, married her, divorced her soon after when he found she was a free bike, left town and I never saw him again. I have another friend whom I met later on but while still at school and we are still like brothers more than 40 years on. If he called needing help, I would drop what I was doing and go to him, wherever he was in NZ, and he would do the same for me. Those friends are made of gold, but the friendship has to be forged through the ups and downs of life before it can truly stand the test of time, and it is a two-way street. Count your blessings, you are very fortunate indeed. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 453968 | 2006-05-11 07:02:00 | Its interesting reading your post Billy. It brings up an interesting situation. It is probably more the norm for a long term drop anything go anywhere to help friendship to be between people of the same sex is it not? I have a friendship with a woman I went to school with 24 years ago and it is one of the above. Its awfully hard to get understanding from the people around us that it is no more than that. Go figure. Any way the words I was looking for: The Here And Now Live in the moment. It is the only thing that is real. The past has been and gone. The future is uncertain and prone to change on a whim. All we can control is each moment we are in. An ever diminishing pool of now…now…now…now. The here and now is the only place to live a life. |
Sam I Am (1679) | ||
| 453969 | 2006-05-11 07:10:00 | Ha! Sam I am I'm currently posting from my best friends computer, and she was there for me big time when the chips were seriously down. I've known her long enough to not be able to work out how many years exactly, but somewhere between 6 and 8ish. Most of my closest friends are females, but only one of them has ever been my lover as well. Funny how that works. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 453970 | 2006-05-11 07:11:00 | Ha! Sam I am I'm currently posting from my best friends computer, and she was there for me big time when the chips were seriously down. I've known her long enough to not be able to work out how many years exactly, but somewhere between 6 and 8. Most of my closest friends are females, but only one of them has ever been my lover as well. But is there an expectation from other people that there is more to your friendships? |
Sam I Am (1679) | ||
| 453971 | 2006-05-11 07:22:00 | But is there an expectation from other people that there is more to your friendships?Hell yes! One jealous girlfriend did all she could to make hell between me and my friends once... To call it tedious is an understatement. The amount of people who ask if me and friends are ........... gets sickening, or amusing depending on my mood. Sometimes the expectations can be useful, like if we go to some sleazy bar somewhere like the Esplananrde, its easy for us to pretend to be "together" than have all the white trash making passes all night. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 453972 | 2006-05-11 07:36:00 | hahahahahahahahaha. I hear that | Sam I Am (1679) | ||
| 453973 | 2006-05-12 00:26:00 | Well seems that it was a forewarning of things to come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i had to go out from a sos call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the things we do . . . LOL :D All things sorted and the flames have mellowed . . . . . And i believe if you cant be good you still need to be kind no matter what the circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and often that requires turning the other cheek . . . . We seem to walk along the path of life in the dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . where the lights are often dim or few and far between . and when the light is bright we are doing well in life, with work, money and plenty of friends . . . . . but when it is dark maybe the only thing keeping you going is the voices in front of you laughing from the joy of being in the light??? Take care people . Take one day at a time and god bless your travels on your journey thro life . :D beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 453974 | 2006-05-12 01:48:00 | I sometimes help people I barely know if they ask & I have a bit of spare time mmmmm "...people I barely know..." Do you mean people you've met at the nudist colony? |
TideMan (4279) | ||
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