Life Is Messy!
Life is messy.
A lifetime ago we became friends with a couple in our neighborhood. You know, the kind of friendship that's easy. You enjoy each other, your kids enjoy each other, you like and think for the most part the same. We were together...a lot!
Then, because of some seriously inappropriate actions on the part of one of the four of us, they decided they couldn't be our friends anymore. We were devastated. We missed them. Our kids, missed them. Nine years later....
our son was killed and there they were, on our doorstep...as if nothing had changed between us. I was confused, but grateful to see them. I missed them.
Time went by....nine more years to be exact. They never stepped on our doorstep in those nine years...and we never stepped on theirs.
Saturday their boy was killed in an accident. They opened the door and there we were on their doorstep...as if nothing had changed between us. They seemed grateful to see us. Just as I was grateful to see them all those years ago.
I wonder....will it take another tragedy to bring us together, another nine years...or could we just accept that life is messy and keep one eye closed. I'd much rather live in a mess with people I love than in a perfect world without them.
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