RE: Interesting self-observation

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I can only handle one " in person " friend at a time, I can count on one hand

the friends that I have had, and lost. I never go looking for friends, I

seem to stumble across them. They don't stop being my friends, but I move

around a lot and it's hard to keep track of them. When I do call them, we

talk on the telephone for hours, then we don't talk again for years. I have

several friends that I need to call, just to make contact, but it's hard for

me to talk on the phone, which they don't understand.

Louis

In my house, " normal " is only a setting on the dryer.

From: Klein

....I just had a rather interesting, if minor, epiphany about how I view

friendship....

....I have an innate sense that I had a capability for

friendship (as evidenced by having true friends) that I lack now. I

don't miss my former friends, except for fleeting moments here and

there, and even then it is a relatively minor kind of thing....

....That same thing is how I see friends, and how I see myself in terms of

ability and desire to be social. I have never wanted friends, per se; I

have had them, but it was never because I made a concerted effort to go

obtain them. The friendships just happened, in the course of living.

Obviously, I was open to friendship when circumstances permitted, and

the unique people with whom I became friends were able to tolerate

someone that was pretty strange....