Sadness
Most of my adult working life, I have had a dilemma. And today driving home from a friend’s wedding,I realized how sad that dilemma makes me. The problem is that almost all of my close friends live anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours away. Since being married and living in out own as a family, I have never known what it is like to have friends our age in our same town, except for Tim and Kelly, two great friends we met at church.
I guess that thinking about this was brought in by the fact that I met a couple this weekend that I would love to hang out with more, and I coyodnt help but think of how lucky the people are who have them around constantly. The problem us that they live almost 45 minutes away from us. Not really conducive to them coming over for coffee.
All my friends from high school live around Nashville, which is 3 hours from here. My college friends are in Illinois, 3 hours away. The couple getting married today, and another friend live in Florence, AL, which is an hour from us.
There are days when I want to get out of here so badly just to be around people my own age but I struggle with the selfishness of that. And that’s why I’m sad.
very legitimate feelings there. That was a big factor in my Kentucky depression. The good news is that we shall chase those blues away over the next 2 days!
Can relate to your feelings. We moved so much as children, never had those friends from 1st grade to 12th. Three years here, 1 year there and as you get older, it gets harder. I am thankful for the friends I have no matter what age now. Some are close by and others live in places like Nashville, Dallas, Olive Branch Ms., and some fellow named Marty. Some of my fiends I have never met face to face, but still consider them good friends. So take heart man, you have me and Jesus!!