Family Forever
Keeping In Touch....With Yourself
Even A Busy Parent Needs To Take Time To Remember
Recently at at a child-related sporting event I ran into a woman I haven't seen in awhile. Our kids had attended preschool together. We greeted each other and marveled, as adults do, how quickly the last couple of years have passed. I mentioned someone we knew from that time in our lives, which in all reality, was not very long ago. When I asked if they had remained friends the woman sighed, "I wish I had stayed in touch with her....but I can hardly stay in touch with myself." The event ended. I collected my kid, she collected hers and we waved goodbye, both of us quickly reabsorbed back into the whirl of our own lives. But what she said stayed with me. Quite eloquently she had verbalized a feeling I have lately been experiencing with all …
Andrea Kahn
9:21 am on Thursday, June 9, 2011
Thank you for your very interesting comments. It's so important to find your way back to those parts of yourself that can easily diminish over time, overshadowed by daily obligations and responsibilities. Finding that "sense of comfort" (as Niamh eloquently calls it), is an essential survival tool. How exactly we find it doesn't matter (reconnecting with old friends, music, art, biking....)....… more ›