281 Friends

281_Friends

A SHORT STORY_

I thought I had lost a friend the other day.

In fact, I thought I had lost every friend I had had.

Worse still I thought the World was against me.

It turned out the War was over, and I could redeem myself from the wreckage, part in fuelled, and part caused by other madnesses mixed up with mine. I sat on my laurels, and handed out handshakes and smiles, while underneath it all I felt alone. I was so, lonely I could not fathom how I would come to meet man in the middle. Like I had just chosen my desert island discs, and packed my trunk, and was already in no man’s land. There was a purpose to this, to get to the bottom of an old haunting of mine under the stairs, waiting 10, 9, 8, 7, . . . 3, 2, 1, - “Where are you, Claire?” No response, she could be lurking anywhere in the house or garden. My Sister had hidden so well, I was dumbfounded and found no sight nor sound of the girl. I was 3, and she was 6. It was fun to celebrate finding her, but all the work struggling to, seemed pointless, just to have her in my arms. I found her eventually ½ hour later behind a garden crab apple tree. Not where I expected. This is where I learnt to procrastinate, why I thought I did not have a friend in me. Everybody is a friend in me today, I have done so much free self-help though the blog, and social media, I have either become, annoyed, annoying, or helpful? I am not annoyed, and I am certainly not out to annoy others. I am just trying to help, before COVID hit, I celebrated leaving a previous locked ward, as I find myself in now, and must laugh off a callous mistake to lead me here, hitting someone I could find outside, by the Cherry Tree, and feel unjustified by local Police, because we always think everything in our justification has been resolved, and we were allowed, whether by Mother Mary or not? So, all in all, my empathy and sympathy to my neighbour, wherever he is, to justify returning home, I am deeply sorry if I was wrong, as the Police do a thorough investigation for me. I am enjoying telling this story far more than I first thought. While the Bible has enemies, and a World that will not give peace. I feel we are losing today’s climate of friendly communal living. It is normally heads down and no truth, no conversation, and everybody is mute. Therefore, we must all rise together in spirit, Holy or not, and enjoy pastures anew from where we left off. The re-birth of the city looks interesting, and so, I say let us all have a go as new and best friends to really change the sense of modernity of every friend in me, and I every friend in everybody to do things a better way that cohesively lives younger, in us.

LOVE ABAB XX