People Come Into Our Life for a Reason, a Season, a Lifetime No comments yet

Yes, we’ve all probably heard this saying many times and in different forms, yet with the same meaning. There is so much truth in what it has to say.

My blogging usually deals with Real Estate related posts & things that I have an interest in, etc. I’ll write about my opinions on certain topics, but rarely do I write so personally. But I want to tell all about something that I never thought I’d have the joy to experience.

Here I sit in a motel room in northern Mississippi and my brother is getting married this afternoon. Granted, it’s not his first time, nor his second, but it will be his last. I really believe that. He went through a life-altering experience several years ago, which some of you are aware of from reading my blogs. I spent several months in this region of the country by his bedside. So today is even more joyous, if there can be such a thing, than might normally be the case.

I’ve met a lot of people in my life & have been involved in a few relationships. This is not something that I would generally put in a public forum. As open as I may seem about myself, I’m somewhat of a private person in certain aspects. Many will have a difficult time after reading this, and that’s one reason that I’ve never put my life out there for all the public to see. But there comes a time in one’s life that there are more important things to consider. I’m not writing this for anyone to read, yet for all! I’m not writing this for him to read as I don’t think he reads this blog nor do I intend to tell him about this.

I’m a 55 year old man. Very content in life. I’ve had my ups and downs just like everyone else. I stopped ‘looking’ a long time ago trying to meet someone. Knew that was not the way to find someone anyway. Earlier this year I met someone. We communicated a little. I found out that he did home repair work and hired him to do a couple of things for me here and there. We talked a little, but it was just about work. Fast forward several months and more work for myself as well as some customers.

One day we met at a home that he needed to do some work at and for some reason ended up standing in the driveway and talking for at the least an hour and possibly two. I lost track of time. I asked him if he had plans for later and if he would like to meet for dinner. The conversation that evening was wonderful and we both had a nice time. We have been in contact almost every day since and as time went on more than several times a day. Within a week of that dinner we realized that we would be close friends for quite some time to come.

It’s not often that you make such connections in life. We have a friendship replete with respect, caring and concern. In the past, I might have delved in head first, but thankfully we became friends first. We came to have an implicit trust for each other. There were times in the past with others that paranoia and doubt would present itself, but the utter trust that I have for him kept that at bay. Recently, something came to mind and some may understand what I’m saying, and I’d never realized it before – I feel safe with him. It was a new concept, so interesting, so warm and so enveloping – just like him!

Our friendship has continued to grow. That in itself is enough for me. I do have a few very close friends who no matter what have my back as I do theirs. But our friendship has grown beyond that. Never thought there could be such a thing.

I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but I really do believe that we will always be in each others life one way or another. Will it progress to our becoming lovers, partners? I don’t know, but I do know that there will never be another person in my life who truly cares for me and has so much concern for me and my well being than he does. No other person that will do such not because of what they think that I may be able to do for them or what they may be able to derive from an association. I know his concern comes from the heart. This is mutual as I feel and would do the same for him.

Here’s to you my friend!!

I am so very thankful that you are a very integral part of my life buddy! You mean the world to me!!