As exhaustion takes over and responsibilities continue to pile on. My abilities to keep juggling the balls of life become more and more difficult. I have a friend who through university we were relatively inseparable. Each holiday and birthday we would be side by side. Often because my mother was away spending her vacations with my grandmother who had Alzheimer’s as a result I was left alone for much of the holiday season. Her family took me in and it was with them that I spent my Christmases, Thanksgiving and Birthdays. I have been making a half assed effort to keep in contact with her and keep our friendship a float. I say half assed because I am not much of a phone person. Plus over the last few years our life has changed tremendously. I am a homeowner two jobs etc. She is a Working mom, main breadwinner that works a 50 hour work week. With our busy lives it becomes more and more difficult to keep in contact. Despite this we always find the time to say Happy Birthday… until now. I forgot her birthday. This is something that I never do especially to those close to me. I will be doing my best to make it up to her., but it ways on me heavy on how much it must have hurt her for her special day to arrive and for me not to be there to wish her well.
About Me
- Me and my life
- I am a single black woman in her early thirties who realizes that while I enjoy a few things in life I rarely get to enjoy them. I am participating in this blogging experience to with all honestly try something new and because of the arm twisting of my co-worker. Hell this is cheaper than counselling.To put myself out there. I am a person who uses the computer on a daily basis yet I am still so far removed from technology. I don't use instant messenger..it freaks me out. While I am on Facebook I certainly don't use it as a social site so blogging about my everyday life is far removed from what I do but isn't that what life should be about trying something different. So this is it.
2 comments:
A strong friendship will survive this and you both will feel better about it. We are human and sometimes life gets in the way.
I've forgetten my best friend's bday before...if they are a true friend they will understand. It's just one day out of the year,after all, you can always make it up by getting her 364 gifts...one for all the other days in the year. That should do the trick! :)
Good luck! :)
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