Thankful
I'm thankful that I've met Hutch and ralph6669 .
I've been thinking about the enjoyable second Thanksgiving this year with Hutch after we shared plates brought home from my family's gathering. We talked about philosophers and what the future holds for us. He really tries to get me to look at a big picture view, not a cosmic scale of Life, Universe and Everything, but how my own personal Big Picture could be and should be bigger, as the rest of the Big Picture should sod off and take care of itself on its own. I feel bad that I can't see that same leap to being so positive and relentlessly tenacious. While I am starting back again next quarter, I wish I had as much faith in a positive outcome as he does.
What's there to say about ralph6669 that hasn't already been said? He's my most reliable friend. He doesn't ask much from me and gives much more in return. His help has made much of the good stuff of the past couple years possible, if only because I didn't have to question on whether I can call on him when I'm really far out on a limb (instead of getting turned down by others because I didn't anything to offer them at that moment). While he might not talk about philosophers, I do remember long conversations about the future and the past while sitting in his truck outside my house after game for hours. (One such talk lasted long enough to cause a neighbor to come out to ask why we were sitting outside her house after dark, which I corrected her that I was there because I was sitting outside my house, not hers.)
Maybe that's what makes them such good friends? That they take time out to let me talk and talk to me about what's going on in my life, not just talking about what they need or only talking to me when they need something.
I've been thinking about the enjoyable second Thanksgiving this year with Hutch after we shared plates brought home from my family's gathering. We talked about philosophers and what the future holds for us. He really tries to get me to look at a big picture view, not a cosmic scale of Life, Universe and Everything, but how my own personal Big Picture could be and should be bigger, as the rest of the Big Picture should sod off and take care of itself on its own. I feel bad that I can't see that same leap to being so positive and relentlessly tenacious. While I am starting back again next quarter, I wish I had as much faith in a positive outcome as he does.
What's there to say about ralph6669 that hasn't already been said? He's my most reliable friend. He doesn't ask much from me and gives much more in return. His help has made much of the good stuff of the past couple years possible, if only because I didn't have to question on whether I can call on him when I'm really far out on a limb (instead of getting turned down by others because I didn't anything to offer them at that moment). While he might not talk about philosophers, I do remember long conversations about the future and the past while sitting in his truck outside my house after game for hours. (One such talk lasted long enough to cause a neighbor to come out to ask why we were sitting outside her house after dark, which I corrected her that I was there because I was sitting outside my house, not hers.)
Maybe that's what makes them such good friends? That they take time out to let me talk and talk to me about what's going on in my life, not just talking about what they need or only talking to me when they need something.