Why Connecting With Friends Is Important

I thought a friend of mine had forgotten about me, and the friendship we had yesterday. I realise that friend has a few health issues at the moment, as well as having grandchildren she likes to see as often as possible, and was thinking that time of being friends may have ended.

I realise these things can happen, with no malice, just a change in circumstances, when other things have become more important than the friendship we’ve had. A sad time, but not the end of the world. I was prepared for that, and felt OK about it.

But hurray, today I’ve connected up with that friend again, she’d felt she needed to withdraw from social media, and connecting only with family there, but was prepared to follow up when she saw me pop up for a chat on Facebook, and we had a good time reaching out to each other again today.

So I’ve been able to go today, from being prepared to say a fond farewell to a good friend, to getting excited about catching up with my friend again in person, soon, because she wants to see me again, hurray!

If we hadn’t made this connection today, who knows it may have been our relationship became a victim of this Covid crisis, with people all over the world beginning to curl up into family only groups, and friendships fading away in the hope of keeping safe from this awful virus.

Make that these awful viruses — my friend has been suffering with influenza these past weeks, and still has it, though she’s getting a bit better, and I…