"All of a sudden you seemed
stranger than fiction to me."
Shillpi S Banerrji
The winter season invites us to indoor gatherings and contact with friends or family we may not have seen for a while. We might be surprised by how others have changed without surveying how much we have changed ourselves. Life is filled with opportunities to be embraced for enhancement or ignored for complacent status.
Two friends who had been absent from each other for a few years arranged a meeting. Although they kept in touch through social media, they both were yearning for a face to face update. Both women had changed, they quickly realized and were no longer focused on the same goals. The years of friendship, however, embraced the differences and applauded the advancement of each other.
Aging friends need not match personal space nor diversity of interests. We ask about them and listen with compassion to his or her journey whether we support it or not. Listening without judgment allows the speaker to fully disclose the magic exploding in life. We are meant to share and embrace, but we can use discretion when we see horror spread across his or her face.
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