Meme Has Actually Made Me Think
May. 26th, 2011 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddy_radiatorAwhile ago, I was reading Droxy's meme, and she and others commented about RL friends vs. LJ friends, and how really, there is no difference. While it is true I have friends and acquaintances here in Teddyworld, the real life friends I have are here, my precious LJ family. I simply cannot go a day without knowing you are all well and doing okay, or not so well and want to rant. Either way, I'm always glad to see you.
The comments regarding RL friends have never hit home so hard as they did today. My best friends, K and hubby Dominant Bri (he of the retrieved chapter 20 of LML fame) have just told us they are having to move 2 1/2 hours away into Georgia, in order for K to start a program so that she can get her MD residency next year. They have worked so hard this last year, and went through their life savings to try to hold on here, but they will have to move. They know that this next year is going to be so difficult they may have to be homeless at times. It is a terrible situation for them, but one they have to experience. I won't go into all the gory details, but suffice to say this is going to be the most life-defining year of a marriage of several life-defining years. They are tough, resilient, and uncomplaining. They are masters of turning lemons into lemonade, and even they are frightened of what this next year will bring. If they can survive, everything will be great, but this will be a dreadful year for them, and aside from helping them move and sending them occasional care packages, there's sweet FA we can do for them.
We are heartbroken. Aside from everyone here on LJ, they are the only couple we socialise with who 'get' us at all. We can talk to them about anything, and they are completely open, nonjudgemental and the most generous-hearted people on the planet. In other words, the type of friends who are as rare as rocking horse shit.
K was the person who encouraged me to read fanfiction; she literally is the reason I'm typing this now, and her encouragement has been immediate and loving. She and Bri were faithful customers at the Tea Room, and the type of people you could call in the middle of the night and they'd be there before you hung up the phone.
Now, hopefully, K will be more of an LJ friend (she has an account but isn't too active), and I will be able to keep up with me here, because she will hardly ever get to come back and visit. I'm so upset, but it just reminds me that here is my real home, in so many ways.
Many of you are closer to me than my own family.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
droxy , irishredlass69 , bulletimescully , andyissadangel , and so many others I'm too discombobulated to mention (and I apologise for leaving you out), you have been encouragement personified. sempraseverus , mimimanderly , justpinkpastel , you are the sisters I never had.
I'm losing a sister soon, and I mean losing her. She is going to be working so hard keeping her head above water she will not have time for trivialities, and I totally understand it, but she is too precious, and I will miss her beautiful soul and lovely self giving me hugs and kisses.
Thank you for being there when I come home from helping her move on with her life.
The comments regarding RL friends have never hit home so hard as they did today. My best friends, K and hubby Dominant Bri (he of the retrieved chapter 20 of LML fame) have just told us they are having to move 2 1/2 hours away into Georgia, in order for K to start a program so that she can get her MD residency next year. They have worked so hard this last year, and went through their life savings to try to hold on here, but they will have to move. They know that this next year is going to be so difficult they may have to be homeless at times. It is a terrible situation for them, but one they have to experience. I won't go into all the gory details, but suffice to say this is going to be the most life-defining year of a marriage of several life-defining years. They are tough, resilient, and uncomplaining. They are masters of turning lemons into lemonade, and even they are frightened of what this next year will bring. If they can survive, everything will be great, but this will be a dreadful year for them, and aside from helping them move and sending them occasional care packages, there's sweet FA we can do for them.
We are heartbroken. Aside from everyone here on LJ, they are the only couple we socialise with who 'get' us at all. We can talk to them about anything, and they are completely open, nonjudgemental and the most generous-hearted people on the planet. In other words, the type of friends who are as rare as rocking horse shit.
K was the person who encouraged me to read fanfiction; she literally is the reason I'm typing this now, and her encouragement has been immediate and loving. She and Bri were faithful customers at the Tea Room, and the type of people you could call in the middle of the night and they'd be there before you hung up the phone.
Now, hopefully, K will be more of an LJ friend (she has an account but isn't too active), and I will be able to keep up with me here, because she will hardly ever get to come back and visit. I'm so upset, but it just reminds me that here is my real home, in so many ways.
Many of you are closer to me than my own family.
droxy , irishredlass69 , bulletimescully , andyissadangel , and so many others I'm too discombobulated to mention (and I apologise for leaving you out), you have been encouragement personified. sempraseverus , mimimanderly , justpinkpastel , you are the sisters I never had. I'm losing a sister soon, and I mean losing her. She is going to be working so hard keeping her head above water she will not have time for trivialities, and I totally understand it, but she is too precious, and I will miss her beautiful soul and lovely self giving me hugs and kisses.
Thank you for being there when I come home from helping her move on with her life.
