One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy!

I spent Sunday afternoon (and several days last week) talking on the phone with one of my best friends who happens to live across the country. When we were younger, we used to talk on the phone non-stop, all the time, even watching television shows and calling each other at the commerical breaks. Of all the people in my life, at least from my past, he is the one I have talked on the phone with the most. That is until we grew up.

Then of course time and distance and life stepped in and it was just a phone call here and there with special news or just a quick catch-up call a few times a year. I am not complaining...cause those phone calls were just as special to me as all the others in the past. Of all my friends from high school and college and time after that who have left the local vicinity -- he has been the MOST faithful at keeping in touch. I remember in high school making pacts that we would always be in touch, I think everyone did that sort of stuff...but guess what...the two of us have actually done that! It is hard to explain how young I feel every time I see his number come up on the caller id.

So, we have been chatting since he came home for a visit last weekend. He is navigating life and so am I, it is nice to have a familiar voice on the line to listen and for some reason, he likes my advice. It is a role I in which I am pretty comfortable, I can dole out advice (sometimes pretty good advice too!) it is just taking it for myself that gives me trouble.

I am so thankful for his active reappearance in my daily world...I wish he didn't need advice -but I am glad to be able to talk things out with him and be needed as a friend once more. I kinda feel like it is 1983 again...I just wish I could find a old Magnum PI rerun on television so I could call him during the commericals...just like way back when.

Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev