goodbye

Goodbyes fascinate me.
I know of many a time especially in nursing when I've looked a person in the eye, shaken their hand and said goodbye, knowing they are dying and probably won't be alive the next shift I work.
It seems inappropriate.  It should be how I've enjoyed there company, learnt from the them, laughed with them. But nursing is fleeting, never is the relationship other than professional, sterile.

Friends and associates you often enjoy their company, laugh with them and learn, even fight and argue. The bonds are different. The goodbyes are always tinged with the idea you will meet again.
Yet there are times when you depart their company without knowing you will never meet again. Times when only on reflection that you know that the gulf of distance, time ways of looking at the world have separated you without both of you ever mutually acknowledging this.
Which ever way, I feel the gaps which these people left.

Thank God who puts people into these gaps; which otherwise would be gaping holes in our lives gaping wounds from a gun shot....

Facebook

I have noticed that facebook is used by people for different motives. Some of which I'm happy to go along with. Others use it, trying to push an opinion down my throat without me knowing this is part of the deal. It would appear their motive is about accumulating friends so, that they bait them, throwing out a quote or snippet, usually alligned to an opinion they hold. Then watch as comments appear. It seems to me an unfair way of engagment. For me a fairer way is just to blog. The reader is looking for the material. Instead of it been pushed upon the 'wall'.
Others like politians, or people selling books etc etc will happily become your friend without even knowing you.
So I've decided to do some culling. My criteria now is
::I actually want to know people who want to be my friend (this has been my policy from the start).
::I will have actually had a decent conversation and would genuinely want to know what they are up to. The good thing about facebook this may mean some of my oldest friends.
::I'm also aware that I've got a few non-Christian friends, who wouldn't give a stuff about theology; so I'm mix it up a bit with other things people might be interested in about me.


I am genuinely interested in opinion, of friends. But not so of aquatinces. I do share my opinion with friends. But  I accumulated 'Friends' so as to get a wider audience, for my opinion, thats for the blog....