Just Thinking....

Working in the garden center at this time of year allows me hours of uninterrupted thinking time. Sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes it is not. I often occupy my brain with recepies I want to try at home or ways to decorate a house we've been looking at buying. Sometimes I think about my friends and how happy I am we are back home. Sometimes I think about those friends that I have lost touch with over the years.

It is those friends I sometimes miss the most. I wonder if I could have done more to stay in touch or called more often. Other times I wonder why they did not do the same. It is usually because life gets in the way. People have started saying, as Facebook and other, social networks have taken off that we are becoming too connected. I would tend to disagree because Facebook has reconnected me with friends that I would not have otherwise been able to find when I left Texas. I had a lot of good friends there that I missed in my teen years through high school and college.

I wonder sometimes on those days when I have the sound track of birds, the smell of mulch and periennials in the air, what my life would have been like had I not left Texas rather abrubtly one summer. I thought I would have been back before the final move to say goodbye to my dear friends that I spent hours rollerskating and biking with during the long summer days. It was not until MySpace and Facebook that I found those friends that I had never forgotten. I was so excited the day that I found my old neighbors the McKinney's and the Anderson's. So many days were spent at each other's houses running back and forth. I loved growing up with them.

Do we spend too much time on Facebook? Oh yes. That I can agree with every single day of the week. But it keeps me in touch with my ever expanding family. Does it cause unneccessary drama? What life doesn't have drama? That's family. Taking some time off from Facebook and my cell phone has been a lesson to me. I am an addict some days. At the very least with my cell phone. I'm still twitchy not having it. I miss calling my father and mother at least 2 times a day. I miss talking to Brad on his way home from work. I miss talking to my cousins. I miss talking to people I don't work with everyday!

We just need to learn to not glutton ourselves. Turn off the cell phone, shut down the computer and take a couple pictures of your life! Then share them!

This is one of those posts that made sense in my head when I started it and then I started writing.