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OK, I'll admit it. A friend of mine keeps an online journal on his website... I mentioned him once before and I called him a slacker because he hadn't updated it in a while..
Well, I've been slack because I haven't been back to read it. So, today, when he asked me if I had read what he had posted lately, I felt very bad and went to catch up, only to find that he had updated every day since Dec. 28 (That was a lot of reading to do).
But I know the real reason he wanted me to read his journal. I had a really bad day on Friday (in case you couldn't tell by my overly long and maudlin post), and he wrote something in his journal on Saturday for me.
For that, I'd like to make my own reply to him here....
You've been my best friend, my "family" and the most important person in my life for many years now. No matter what the distance is between us, I will always be there for you, as you have always been there for me. You never needed to say the words you wrote to me, but in saying them you brought tears to my eyes. You know that I do understand you and your idosyncracies, and that I will always love you in spite of them.
In understanding you, I came to understand myself, and learned how to paint a better picture of love than I had ever painted before.
I know that we don't look at that issue in the same way, but as I have always said, it doesn't matter to me. You have always supposed that you couldn't live up to my expectations. All I really ever wanted was for you to know that I didn't have any expectations.
I love the man you are now, and the man that I know you will grow to become. Thank you for being in my life.
Well, I've been slack because I haven't been back to read it. So, today, when he asked me if I had read what he had posted lately, I felt very bad and went to catch up, only to find that he had updated every day since Dec. 28 (That was a lot of reading to do).
But I know the real reason he wanted me to read his journal. I had a really bad day on Friday (in case you couldn't tell by my overly long and maudlin post), and he wrote something in his journal on Saturday for me.
For that, I'd like to make my own reply to him here....
You've been my best friend, my "family" and the most important person in my life for many years now. No matter what the distance is between us, I will always be there for you, as you have always been there for me. You never needed to say the words you wrote to me, but in saying them you brought tears to my eyes. You know that I do understand you and your idosyncracies, and that I will always love you in spite of them.
In understanding you, I came to understand myself, and learned how to paint a better picture of love than I had ever painted before.
I know that we don't look at that issue in the same way, but as I have always said, it doesn't matter to me. You have always supposed that you couldn't live up to my expectations. All I really ever wanted was for you to know that I didn't have any expectations.
I love the man you are now, and the man that I know you will grow to become. Thank you for being in my life.