I've been reading a lot of posts lately since I can now access internet once again. I was off for almost three months and have come back with new perspectives. I read one answer that really was amazing in its simplicity. The writer (and I am paraphrasing) said we should all just have a real life, go to real places to meet others and there we will be able to connect. How true I have found that to be!! Without the internet and cyber friends I have been able to make "real" friends, both male and female and I stand amazed at how easy it has been. Eons has been great because I have connected with other local singles.. thru my networking. I now can count at least 6 new friends and from them, others..

Include that with my other friends and I find that I am not without true friends. To me, friends have taken the place of family. One by one, I've seen my family diminish. During the last years I have lost numerous aunts and of course my dear mother. Grandchildren have replaced some of the void; but it is friends on whom I rely the most now.

I have made dating connections thru friends. Whooo! Amazing how easy it was to find others in the same pridacement. Getting older, having grown children, etc. only makes for more common ground on which to relate with others. The reality now of dating is more for companionship, adventure and fun than to procreate and build. It is time to enjoy and cash in on our past labors. Time to say "No" and be a little selfish about our time. Time to say "yes" and have some fun. You and I may never again find what we had in our youth but the alternative is rich and full of other possibilities.

Don't look for perfection. There is was only one perfect man and He is Christ Jesus. We can only try to emulate Him and wonder what He would do in some of the situations we find ourselves....