HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL THE AMERICAN BLOOGERS OUT THERE!!
(Here in Canada, our Thanksgiving is in Oct.)
A friend called me yesterday evening and asked what I've been up to these days; why I haven't been in touch.
I started the conversation by warning her that my battery is low and my phone might die.Then proceeded to tell her I had been depressed lately so I've been burying myself in work,charity and starting to get ready for Christmas to nip the oncoming depression in the bud. But, the phone went dead before I could get the whole sentence out. My battery died.
It's the only phone in the house so I couldn't call her back right away. By the time it was recharged,I had forgotten about the call so didn't call her back.
Then at 2:05 a.m. I was awoken by the phone ringing. More asleep than awake,I answered. It was a differant, mutual friend of mine and the other caller.
He said he was sorry for calling at such an hour but couldn't sleep because he had heard I was going through some hard times and he was concerned for me. He was calling from a differant time zone and it was even later where he was.It touched me that he cared that much. So, I got up and we talked for about two hours. By the end of our phone call, he said he was glad he had gotten me laughing at my troubles and in a more optomistic state of mind. It didn't make much sense to me but I figured,oh well... I don't need to understand everything, do I?
Just before we hung up, I asked him where he had heard I was going through hard times. " through Mary", he said.
After questioning him about what she had said to him. I figured it out.
Turned out that Mary,(the mutual friend) had called me earlier,was worried about me and called him in a panic. She thought I said that I might die, I'm depressed and I want to bury myself...then the phone cut out on her. She assumed I had just hung up I was so sad or depressed or whatever.
Craziness!!