Isolation and Just one friend
I have been thinking lately about how isolating it is being a carer and how other people dismiss you. I've also spent some time pondering the fact that friendship can be a strange thing and how the least little thing can be an embarrassment too far and the friendship is over. Yet some will stick by you even though you think they are merely tolerating you and some, well some seem to be everything you wished for and more and they make you realise that not everyone in the human race are superficial. So thank you to those people. However the isolation that I thought I had under control has gone. The repetitive lockdowns throughout the pandemic have brought people out the woodwork, they are seeking company, someone to moan to and well I guess friendship but as soon as the lockdown is lifted they are gone, back to their lives and you're forgotten again. I wrote this five years ago in May 2015 but it's just as apt today. It's called Just one frie...