| Friday, February 04, 2005 |
|
Friendship
This is all I could come up with this week for Illustration Friday. I blame it on lack of time and the subject. My simple illustration is a memory from childhood when getting a best friend really was this simple.
I have talked about this here before. I have not had a close friend for a few years. When I quit a job of fifteen years almost three years ago the work friendships I had fizzled away, and I haven't had any close friends since then. I have bounced around in a few jobs and have many acquaintances and internet friends, but it is not the same.
I miss not having a close friend, but I blame myself for not being able to "keep" friends. I am not a very good friend. I dislike talking on the phone, and I avoid phone calls like the plague. I also feel that I am bothering people, so I don't keep in touch. I think this is because I am terribly insecure, but don't let people know this. My strange personality doesn't help either. At times I am an extreme extrovert and love being around people. But I also crave solitude and at times I become a hermit and only leave my house when forced (literally). Some people just don't understand this.
I wish finding and keeping a friend was as simple as it used to be. Best Friends Forever, just check the YES box.
|
posted by Kelly @ 2/04/2005 06:17:00 PM   |
|
| 1 Comments: |
-
I actually really like your illo but that's not what I was going to say.
I am very similar! My "friends" online think I am totally outgoing because I am here but in person it takes a while for me to warm up and I am very shy and quiet. I know what you mean about wanting solitude. I get tired after I'm with a bunch of people for a while! I get my energy back by being alone and creating. I think this must be the same for a lot of artist-types.
|
| |
| << Home |
| |
|
|
|
| About Me |
|
Name: Kelly Gibbons
Home: Dallas, Pennsylvania, United States
About Me:
See my complete profile
|
| Not Quite Grown-up: The Random Ramblings of Kelly Gibbons the Dreamer, Writer and Artist |
| My Artwork |
|
|
| Follow Me |
|
|
| Recent Posts |
|
| More Stuff I Make |
|
|
| Archives |
|
| Powered by |
 |
|
I actually really like your illo but that's not what I was going to say.
I am very similar! My "friends" online think I am totally outgoing because I am here but in person it takes a while for me to warm up and I am very shy and quiet. I know what you mean about wanting solitude. I get tired after I'm with a bunch of people for a while! I get my energy back by being alone and creating. I think this must be the same for a lot of artist-types.