Friends Near and Far

I won't bother with the "I'm back" entry.


I've recently made contact with a couple of friends. Contact. it's a funny word. Actually, more vague then funny. For one friend it means that I have recently been in communication after a long period of non-communication. Not a big deal, really. We were best friends in high school, lost contact, re-established contact, lost contact, and recently found each other on Facebook. I don't really think we will do much more than give each other brief descriptions of what's been going on in our lives, and probably lose contact again.

With another friend it's different. We have been forum pals for a while now and have kind of skimmed the surface of our deeper states of emotional reality now and then. Recently, an offer was made to establish an email correspondence for the purpose of venting our internal frustrations and the things that we didn't want to have on a public forum. I think we have made a kind of contact that goes into the realm of connection: something a bit deeper than just touching base.

I don't have a lot of friends. I have A LOT of acquaintances, school chums, and people I talk to regularly. Apart from my wife, my best friend, I have no friends in the small town in which I live. My nearest school chum is 75 miles away. My nearest friend is over a thousand miles away and we connect through keyboards and wires.

There is something here, some deeper concept that I'm trying to explore, but I can't quite make it appear on the page.

Maybe later.