AND THEN A STRANGER COMES ALONG

Every once in awhile someone comes into your life that has an impact on you. Sometimes it's just for a brief moment. Someone you meet on the street, in a store or maybe in a restaurant, somehow a few words are exchanged and a conversation ensues and you may never see that person again, yet they will return to your mind over the years because in some way they have made an impact. They have indelibly stamped their impression into your mind and you almost wish you could run into them again. You even look for them when you go to that same place hoping you will run into them again but alas they are lost forever.

What about your neighbors, are they all friends? Anywhere you live you are going to have neighbors, some of them you will learn to avoid and others will become friends. There are all kinds of friends. There are the ' hi, how are you' kind and the ' let's get together ' kind and then there is that one special person that comes into your life that becomes a life long friend. The one that you can tell your deepest darkest secrets to and know they won't go any further. The one you laugh with when one of you is happy and cry with when one of you is sad. The kind of friend that becomes more like a relative over the years.
A true friend, a friend to love and cherish.

But can you become friends with someone you have never met? Can you love , can you cherish the friendship of someone you have never seen.

I think Blogspot has made it possible to not only meet new people but make new friends and I think anyone who has ever read a post or a comment can see that bonds can be formed with strangers.
We all have blogs that we stay away from and we all have blogs that we migrate to.

But what makes us migrate to the blogs that we tend to go to? What makes us keep going back? At first it may be just the fact that they wrote something that you found funny or interesting so you go back and back again. But over a period of time people tend to revel a part of their selves and their personality begins to shine through and we begin to not only like their posts, but we begin to like the person behind the post.
Suddenly the stranger is not such a stranger anymore and you find yourself caring about them, even missing them if they are gone to long and hoping that they are alright.

I think it is possible to find a persons personality in their written word and I am so glad to have had the opportunity to have formed these bonds, these friendships, with what used to be strangers. Strangers that have shared a part of their selves with me. Strangers that I have gotten to know and care about. Stangers with happiness, sadness, hopes and dreams.

People that I used to call strangers, I now proudly call friends.