Just Keep Talking .... Dont Keep It Hidden

Introduction

This just popped up in my Seven Days In Top Twenty, and I think it contains some interesting concepts, but I still won't reveal the secret. I suppose this is part confessional, but ten years ago I was going to see various friends and tomorrow I am going to see friends and family, including Harry whom I have not seen since the nineteen seventies.

It is always good to renew and nurture friendships.

Just Keep Talking .... Don't Keep It Hidden

This is really difficult. That i snot in a bad way, but smeone has inspired this post and I can't say anything about who she is or what caused this but it is not anything bad or worrying, There's a new girl in the office, but trns out she has been with the company for sometimesome timeuing my modus operandi of talking to everyone about anything I asked her name and she showed me her pass and said it was very unusual.

I countered with Well, yes, it is, but I am very familiar with that name as he has a composer credit on one of my all-time favourite albums, now over 40 years old. She came back with Yes, that's my uncle, and he played on that album and the hit single as well.

That's as far as I can take it. The rest is secret as I can't betray confidences, well, I wouldn't say anything without permission. People could probably work it out, but I don't think they will.

Anyway, as I'm keeping it a secret, we can have Peter Gabriel's Secret World on here.

But again, talk to someone, it will do you both lots of good. I have lots of meetings lined up this week to talk with friends I don't see all that often, and to help some friends in their pursuit of something special. I hope you can do the same, my friends

If you want to share, do it; if you are hurting, let a friend help, we can add our strength to yours.

Sorry for sounding new age, but I love all my friends

Conclusion

This has made me think of a lot of things. It is too easy to put seeing or talking to friends and family off to tomorrow, then next week, the next month, which then becomes a year and then sometimes never. We never need to let that NEVER happen.

Last year, I started visiting Preston on a monthly basis. First of all, it was to see my sister, and now there is a large group of us who have properly reconnected.

This story is the result of one of the days there:

As I said, I haven't seen Harry for fifty years, time should not be a barrier to reconnection.

While it is a twelve-hour day to go to Preston and back, I have refound so many things that I had forgotten about, and a few of my friends are shocked when I tell them what I have found.

I know people who don't even know their neighbours to talk to, and while I don't know all my neighbours' names (one guy is just the "Turkish Professor"), I know most of them to talk to, and we all look out for each other.

Thank you so much for reading this. I hope you have found something to take away, and maybe pick up a phone and make a call to a friend, or even video call them.

We are now globally connected, so we have no excuse not to connect.