Jeff Gee’s Blog

Being With Friends

August 20th, 2008

I was invited to a friends house last night for dinner, and it reminded me that friendship is a big part of life. I hadn’t had the greatest day yesterday and so I was moaning a bit, when Tina said with a laugh,  ’get over it girlfriend.’ How great is that?

We can give training on feedback and listening, and saying the right thing, but a friend can cut right to the chase and say what’s on everyone’s mind. Get over yourself!

Of course it’s done with humor because friends know that we are all the same, we all get on the moaning trip, and it’s fine for a couple of minutes, but who wants to spend an evening listening to someone’s sob story? No one does, right?

We have this one life, and when we’re with friends I for one, want to laugh and have a great time.

So last night, we did just that. And we remembered good times, and old friends and told each other what we loved about each other, and it was wonderful. One girl had brought a pot of white flowers for each of us — we were four in total — and she said, “White flowers means prayers answered.” So we all said which prayers we wanted answered.

I want to see my books in the bookstore at the airport, and also to have one made into a movie. I think that would be so much fun, to walk into the store and see people buying my books, and then to sit in the movie theater and see it on the wide screen. So think about what prayers you want answered today. I’m envisioning sending you a bunch of white flowers–prayers answered! Rock N Roll Val & Jeff

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