Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Satisfying Social Needs



Today our friends, Lola and George fromScaly Mountain NC, came over for a social visit. We met at the town square in Cleveland at noon and went to lunch at Rick’s about a mile south of the square.

We spent the morning doing laundry. Everything seemed to work out perfectly.

We were discussing our day over dinner tonight. We both agree that taking time for social needs is an important thing to do. Both of us enjoy visiting with friends without any agenda, just being friends and swapping stories. That’s what we did today.

We have some friends who need to be booked up doing something all the time -- every day. We are not like that, having spent so much time serving people professionally. We need more time for ourselves so we try for more balance in our lives.

Nancy and John from Ormond Beach FL have turned out to be good friends in the park here at Paradise Valley. They are of similar age and interests so we get together a few times a week. We’ve been out to dinner and plan to do it again.

So we feel pretty good this evening. Maybe “contented” is a better word.

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