Tuesday, August 11, 2009

This just in...

A typical moment in the life of...

A man just rang my doorbell, trying to sell me a new roof. When I
opened the door, I squinted because the sun is bright and I live
inside. He immediately started to apologize.

"It looks like I've woken you up," he said.

"No, you didn't," I replied. "This is just what I look like now."

"I apologize anyway," he said.

And so it begins...

Philia.

I couldn't have found a better word to describe my LIFE. This is what it's all about, my friends. If I could capture all the feeling and emotion that results from countless conversations with the people in my life, I think the world would be a better place. My world is certainly a better place because of it.

Reflecting upon now vs. then with a friend, we were able to turn our pitfalls, our disappointments, our frustrations into just pure laughter. Laughter and being thankful for each other. Although I grow more and more cynical and jaded and angry with each passing moment, I know I have my friends, my philia, to divert all that negativity into humor.

This is what this blog is about. My cynicism and anger towards life and the universe transformed into hilarity. For all my philia to share of course.

They are the reason why I haven't resorted to "throwing glass bottles" in a junkyard. But, if that time comes, you're getting a call and I'm picking you up.