My Friends the Stranger

Hey p1key! I guess that I can think of some people that I have crossed paths with that I wish I had gotten to know a bit better too! But, then I also think that if it was meant to be then it would have been! Life is just to short to go around wondering what should or shouldn't have been and who we should have maybe taken the time to have gotten to know better! I have enough keeping up with the people I do know and trying to fit them into my life's schedule! Am I sounding a bit old and grumpy and cynical? I think I am! Come and rescue me dear P1key! I know that you certainly could make me smile!

These days it's very rare for me to meet anybody new. I'm a bit of a homebody, and even when I go into town I tend to be in my own little world and don't even notice people around me. Alan Rickman could be right next to me in Food-o-rama, reaching up for the tinned salmon ... and I wouldn't even know. Unless he spoke to me, of course. Then my knees would probably buckle.

Think I just answered this one somewhere. Are you or your computer having a senior moment?

I think it depends on how long you get to know each other in the first instance and how balanced the attraction is. I met a lady yesterday whom I was quickly drawn to. We have a few things in common and I saw an opportunity to form a new friendship. It was obvious that this person did not share my thoughts but I'm hoping with time a friendship will grow. At this stage of my life though, I feel if you don't move quickly and take advantage of the moment the the opportunity is easily lost. Do you know what I mean Pikie?

Every day,we will meet a lot of people,and forget ,then meet,and forget.For the stranger,different people have different opinion on it. TO me, it may be good sometimes.Like you and me ,we just chat and share our feelings, besides,we don;t knoe each other exactly. BUT I can tell something that my friends shouldn't know and I shouldn't talk to.

it is funny though, you bond in a short time but you feel you are close to hhim

I've met a few people like this. I do listen to people and learn from them, thinking after they are long gone that I should have gotten a name or number or something, but sometimes it just doesn't seem like asking for a name or number is the right thing to do at the time. It's funny because sometimes it ends up that we meet them again. Kind of like it's a friendship that's meant to be.

hi pikefish yes I think I know what you mean,but then mine were not really casual strangers just friendly acquaintances. we had formed'a support group apart from the diabetes seminar back when I lived in Tustin, and there was my best friend, alice and her daughter, and "Shiv and his wife, we just knew them through our common bond of having diabetes. now I miss them as I guess when they dont see you arould they just dont come to look for you.we had got pretty close for awhile then my life disintegrated and they didnt come around even though I am sure that my best friend Nelda did tell them where I was, sometimes I think this retirement place holds people away for some reason, even my own son doesnt come to see me as often as I would like him to. its not at all like a hospital, so why is it becausse there are some older people here or some who are nut jobs? I know that Alices daughter Donna is mArried to a millionarie and can travel to Europe as easily as I can go across the street. so why cannot they come to see me? As for Shiv and his wife I wou ld really like to know them a lot better, they came to the US from India and they are so loving and so interesting yet theirs was a planned marriage, yet they definitely do love each other.I learned a lot in the short time we were together about india and food and customs, so interesting. to me.

Hi p1key, Yes, there was one friend I had and we used to go everywhere together, will meet every Friday after work for a drink but ten we drafted away, now I don't even know where she is. ugs. Tamara xxx

Good answer I agree.

Yes, i have some unkown strangers frnds. Even i dont know name of some frnds. I cant recognise them if we meet again in life. One frnd , whom i miss a lot, met me in train. We traveled together for 2 hours. And i felf it was a very short time that we spend together. I need some more hours to spend with him. But as his station arrived, he left me. And i traveled alone my 1hour remainin journey . I really miss him a lot. But dont think he felt same for me.