Who are your current most favorite people?
From my title, you may imagine that my favourite people are my family – and you would be right!
My most favourite person in the whole wide world is my daughter who is known in these posts as Veronica. My second most favourite person is Chloe, my lovely grand-daughter.
I’ll put Julian next – I don’t want him to feel left out again (see my post “These are a few of my Favourite Things”). Julian is quite handy to have around – he’s good at filling the dish washer and emptying it, he changes the light bulbs I can’t reach, he helps with shopping, drives me to appointments and, occasionally, listens to me when I want to tell him something! (I hope you realise, Julian, that I am being light-hearted and amusing in this post!)
Then comes my sister, Jennie, followed by my half siblings from another mother – Lindsay, Una, Alex and Robin (although I haven’t seen or heard from the latter since he was about six years old!)
After these close family members come the in-laws, then the friends I see fairly often and those with whom I message weekly or monthly.
Though I am old and have known many people, I haven’t kept up with many of the people I would have had as friends during those many years. All the friends I had in Zanesville when I was a child, have disappeared – some have died, others have moved away. I remember them all with fondness, though, with aphantasia, it is impossible for me to picture any of them.
Friends I had at high school or college in both America and England, have almost all disappeared, too. Sylvia lives in Ohio, I believe, Bob disappeared after he joined the Marines, Skip is/was an admiral in the US Navy and did not want to have any communication with those of us who knew him at school (I read). I am in contact with Nigel and with Tim but not with Colin or Barbara. And, there are so many people I’d love to find but have no way of beginning the search.
I’ve possibly left out someone who is very important and if I have, please accept my apologies. My excuse is, I’m old. The real reason is that I am hurrying to finish this as I’m meeting up with a group of friends in a few minutes to discuss the film Mr Burton – on Zoom. I may be old but I still am busy! Bye bye till next time!
White Haired Woman 
Oh Candy…..the internet has allowed us to find all sorts of people from our pasts and I have!
.The first website to do this was Friendsreunited.Through this,I reconnected with all sorts of friends,from my infants school (when I was 5) to my art school and beyond.Then Facebook created groups,which lead to wonderful reunions (in my case,my art school)
I have had long conversations on line with someone that I was once going to marry.In his mid eighties,he was still asking where he went wrong.
Best of all,I was able to locate a very dear friend,who had lived in France for 30 years. She died earlier this year and I miss her dreadfully.
As for family,I really do love them but more and more only see them at funerals.
I have a daughter who lives on Gozo and a busy daughter who lives nearby.They are my best friends.
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Thanks, Diane. I have a feeling that Friends Reunited has been taken off but I used it to find my best friend, Shaun, when it was still online. The trouble with finding girl friends is that they get married and don’t add their maiden names! Later, about 3 years ago I was able to find my American best friend via our mutual high school’s alumnus magazine and also several years ago I found another good friend by looking for her daughter – who was
four when I last saw them – Myfanwy had moved to Canada and married in 1966 and I had moved home several time and we lost touch but, as I said, I looked for her daughter and found that she worked at a Toronto gym. I wrote to her and she passed on my name to her mum who wrote back!
The other two people I looked for were boys (when I knew them first. Nigel was on Facebook and easy to find once I, myself, had Facebook. I went to his 70th birthday party 10 or so years ago!Tim, on the other hand, does not *trust* Facebook and so never appeared. I was fortunate to find yet another friend, Chris, who told me that Tim was indeed still alive and in London. He sent my email address to Tim and we reconnected that way. Other people I’ve tried to find have long been gone because their names are too common and there are many of them. Also, the ones I have found are the ones I was really looking for! As for relatives, the only ones I have in England are the ones I mentioned by name and all are a lot younger than I am!
Gozo is quite far away, isn’t it? I’m glad you still have one daughter who lives nearby!
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Gozo and my daughter are but a click away on Whatzapp. x
I genuinely love my precious remaining best friends and tell them so. Is that weird?
I know my parents loved me but I don’t think they ever told me so. Is that a generation ‘thing’ I wonder?
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