@gingerw
Thank you for your reply..you have written so eloquently about journaling and how it can be and has been therapeutic for you and how it could be for myself.. I sometimes do written journal entries like here or on my iPhone but vocal notations on my ‘voice memos’ app…mostly…I can hear myself, and realize that ‘friends’ that I’ve met in certain groups or fellowships or churches are really acquaintances that are just passing through that time span —-until something happens to change that … like they move or lose contact, or pass on…and the older you get, the tougher it seems to be to regather new friendships or acquaintances…and the other thing I must realize is that they have ‘family’….and more family, children, grandchildren and old old friends that they still know … long before I happened along…but sometimes just communicating like I am here with my Mayo family…everyone here has been very helpful to me in sharing their wisdom and their hope and experiences…It’s a funny thing…that just yesterday ‘of the blue’, came a text from a fellow that we had not heard from since last year…I replied back to him and he was delighted.. my reply back was lengthy and warm and full of reassurance that his ‘new hunt’ for a condo around the Va. or Md. areas were going to be positive for him…as for some of my AA ‘friends’, well there is no real connection there… I wish it were otherwise but I’m the odd man out and probably one of the older AA members with continuous sobriety which frankly I don’t think about at all other than when I join a Zoom meeting….sometimes it is good, sometimes not so good..I’m going on here… my
thanks to you and others here on Mayo Connect for your support and encouragement and may I
say ‘God Bless’ and have a wonderful week ahead 🙏pvctom