Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

One Friend or Lots of Acquaintances

What's more important to you...one or two friends you can tell absolutely anything to, or any number of friends you can see only on certain occasions?


It would be nice to have one or two friends you can tell absolutely anything to. I need to call the people I see occasionally friend as well.

Around here people think you should be involved socially with other people to be (looking for a word ??) (Pinocchio) a real live girl?

Children are into every thing at school. My own grandchildren do 4H, scouts, soccer, softball, and other activities. The whirl is exhausting.

My children also dud some activities such as scouts, softball, and 4H plus church, Sunday School, Bible School. But we never were so involved they couldn't read or ice skate on our little pond or invent games of their own to play. One summer we split into two groups and played capture the flag. I was really bad at this game but I had Blaine (my middle son) on my side so we won sometimes.

The constant activity is over whelming sometimes. In a conversation with a close family member I stated, "I know I'm not socially well rounded any more," the answer was, "Actually, I'm beginning to think your way is better."

It is because in order to be social people are expected to be involved in a lot of activity. When I was younger it wasn't unusual to see the same people at every event over and over. The same people were always the organizers, the workers, etc.

If you back off, take a breather, the social whirl goes on without you well enough. Having one or two good friends is nice. Seeing other people sometimes is nice. And just getting what needs to be done accomplished is nice.

We need social organizations to keep up with the needs that maybe aren't addressed any other way. Like the homeless. People who don't earn enough to feed their family s and other types of problems.

There is a difference in life in a city or even a small town and life in a rural surrounding. You learn to take social activity as it is available or you go out and find it on your own.