I have written before that I am not good at making friends, but have had some good ones – Friends.
Now I am starting a life in a new city, in a new state, and everyone I will meet will be new to me. My wife has given me the mission of making new friends.
I know some of you are like, “That’s easy.”
And others of you are like, “That’s harder than you think.”
I don’t know what to think. I want to have friends in Idaho. I want to be able to talk to people that aren’t in my direct family. I think it could be fun to hang out with people. Life has just been so busy the last many years that I haven’t made the effort to do it, and I don’t know if things are going to get easier or harder in the near future.
I have a feeling that the next many months are going to be hard time-wise. I think that getting everything figured out at the new house, the girl’s school life, the girl’s activity life, my wife’s job, my two jobs (at least currently 2), and all the moving stuff that still needs to be completed (driver’s license (written test), titling vehicles (one at a time), property tax paperwork (filed at a state building) just to name a few) is going to take a lot of time, and as a result I have a string feeling I am going to push the “making new friends” part of moving to a far back.
The key will be that if I want to be successful in this mission I will need to bring it from the back and move it toward the front. That will be the challenge for me, and I know it. I am very good at getting into a rhythm and liking that rhythm and then not getting out of that rhythm.
I find making friends to be hard. Making casual friends is easy since there is in depth to them. But to take on this mission of actually making friends is going to be a challenge. That is why I am going to try and think of it as a mission. Missions are supposed to be challenging. You never read of someone in battle having an easy mission. Or when you watch a movie like Guardians of the Galaxy, their mission was never easy. There were challenges and both internal and external struggles that had to be faced. I am sure I will have all those same struggles.
So, “This mission if you choose to accept it …” I am going to do my best. And I will write about it as things progress. So stay tuned.
This blog will self destruct in 5 seconds (ok not really, but how could I not put that in here too).