How appropriate that directly following a post about friendship, I promote my lovely evening with a friend last night!
If you'll remember, earlier I mentioned an initial and second conference with Katherine of Reflections On The Window. This Second Conference was to involve blog conversation and Gluten-Free Eating-- and I am pleased to announce that it did!
It was an extraordinary day filled with laughter, baking, new British Television, and much more. Not to be redundant, but, this is yet another example of a fabulous friend-date!
You can read about this second conference on my personal blog, Everyday Ali.
xoxo, Ali
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Regarding Relations
I would like to invite my darling audience of (now) 4 to follow my personal blog as well, at Everyday Ali.
These friendships included 4, now 3 people. All of them across the country and only able to communicate by way of text message due to the unfortunate time difference that interfered with my social life completely. I had more friends than that, of course, but those few were (and are) the ones who I kept in touch with on a regular basis.
It was not until half-way through the year of two-thouand-thirteen that I opened myself up once again to the idea of friendship. Mostly by my mother's doing. I was perfectly happy wallowing in my pit of apathy and ambivalence. However, my mother thought it unhealthy. That heinous obedience took hold of my heart, and I made the brave and noble decision to go out.
It's amazing how quickly you can lose your social game once you sit out for a round. I was really quite awkward when trying to reach out. I guarantee that it was very uncomfortable for an onlooker, and I can only imagine the pain I have put certain acquaintances through in the past 7 months, 6 days, 3 hours, and approximately 18 minutes.
Oh, forgive me, my amateurish attempts at friendship began much earlier than that. 9 months, 1 day, 12 hours, and 20 minutes ago.
While this time in the desert was certainly an unpleasant period, it has come to pay off.
Although I do not believe that I have come to be anyone's favorite (which is quite understandable), I now have caring, interesting, and musical friendships, established far outside of my school's walls. Yes, that does, indeed, imply that I am primarily a social outcast at my place of education. I have one friend, though. She's exceptionally lovely and engages in British Television, such as Sherlock, as do I.
Though, my previous actions would suggest I am of introverted nature, in actuality, I'm just the opposite. My personality begs for human interaction and thrives when it feeds on the love emitted by astonishingly alluring people. Friend-dates (to use Katherine's phrase) and gatherings are my heart's desire, and I cannot even begin to describe the immense amount of jubilance I feel when someone engages in conversation with me willingly.
To return to my overall objective, these fairly new relations have created a happier me. I have been removed from the sea of ignorance's dream, they have shattered self-dependance and shown me the truth of community:
It's quite magnificent.
We weren't created to live alone. Be a friend, show love, invite people out, do fun things, drink tea, watch Star Wars, and eat sushi. Truly, I tell you, if acquaintances can make an unmistakable change for the better in my life, they can be of monumental importance to all people-- including you.
Hebrews 10:24-25
xoxo, Ali
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The past several years have been of lonely nature. In the year commonly referred to as "twenty-twelve," I moved from Florida to California, I started a new, and quite frankly, less attractive (in not only it's image, but also in that of the academic and administrative character) school, and I became a mild misanthrope. This was partly due to my own will, but largely due to my personality's vivid antithesis compared to my surrounding community. As a result of this sudden sense of disapproval, and my own censure of my peers, I cut myself off from all relations. With the exception of previous friendships, obviously.These friendships included 4, now 3 people. All of them across the country and only able to communicate by way of text message due to the unfortunate time difference that interfered with my social life completely. I had more friends than that, of course, but those few were (and are) the ones who I kept in touch with on a regular basis.
It was not until half-way through the year of two-thouand-thirteen that I opened myself up once again to the idea of friendship. Mostly by my mother's doing. I was perfectly happy wallowing in my pit of apathy and ambivalence. However, my mother thought it unhealthy. That heinous obedience took hold of my heart, and I made the brave and noble decision to go out.
It's amazing how quickly you can lose your social game once you sit out for a round. I was really quite awkward when trying to reach out. I guarantee that it was very uncomfortable for an onlooker, and I can only imagine the pain I have put certain acquaintances through in the past 7 months, 6 days, 3 hours, and approximately 18 minutes.
Oh, forgive me, my amateurish attempts at friendship began much earlier than that. 9 months, 1 day, 12 hours, and 20 minutes ago.
While this time in the desert was certainly an unpleasant period, it has come to pay off.
Although I do not believe that I have come to be anyone's favorite (which is quite understandable), I now have caring, interesting, and musical friendships, established far outside of my school's walls. Yes, that does, indeed, imply that I am primarily a social outcast at my place of education. I have one friend, though. She's exceptionally lovely and engages in British Television, such as Sherlock, as do I.
Though, my previous actions would suggest I am of introverted nature, in actuality, I'm just the opposite. My personality begs for human interaction and thrives when it feeds on the love emitted by astonishingly alluring people. Friend-dates (to use Katherine's phrase) and gatherings are my heart's desire, and I cannot even begin to describe the immense amount of jubilance I feel when someone engages in conversation with me willingly.
To return to my overall objective, these fairly new relations have created a happier me. I have been removed from the sea of ignorance's dream, they have shattered self-dependance and shown me the truth of community:
It's quite magnificent.
We weren't created to live alone. Be a friend, show love, invite people out, do fun things, drink tea, watch Star Wars, and eat sushi. Truly, I tell you, if acquaintances can make an unmistakable change for the better in my life, they can be of monumental importance to all people-- including you.
Hebrews 10:24-25
xoxo, Ali
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