My Blue Heaven

Friends are friends forever?

I’ve been noticing that as I’ve grown older, the number of friends I have seem to be diminishing. Is this just a “thing” that happens as you grow older? You lose the larger groups of friends you had when you were in high school and university, and instead just cultivate a few close friends. But for me, it seems that even the good friends I had, and was once close to, are diminishing also. I dunno if it is something I’m doing wrong, or if it is just something that happens in life, and I should just accept it as a matter of change?

It makes me feel really sad to lose good friends.. to just grow apart over time. I know it happens, and that with life changes, people move in different directions. Friends come and go – you are close for a time as circumstances permit, and enjoy that shared intimacy, and then you drift apart, and it is gone.

I kinda regret that loss. And I miss the groups I was once a part of.. like most of my uni friends (whom I hardly see anymore). Its strange.. thinking about those times. It seems like it was so long ago, like it was all just a dream. Hrm. Ok this is getting a little maudlin..

Weekend Update

I had a nice weekend… even though I got sick on Saturday. 🙁 Damn this cold weather!! (I should be skiing! :P) Anyway, the Jazz In The City festival was nice. I caught the Bill Risby Trio… and even had a chat to the man himself – and guess what, he remembered me!!! *glows* I met him when I attended this Performance Arts conference in 98 (Cooma), as he was one of the staff in the Band seminar stream. He didn’t remember my name, but he recognised my face. How cool is that! 🙂

Anyway, on Sunday, Paul and I watched Jersey Girl – not a bad movie. Bit of a tear jerker (ok more than just a bit) and very cute. 🙂 On Sunday evening we went to visit St Pauls Castle Hill’s 5:30 service, and their arts festival afterwards (bumping into Vron’s family and Vanessa who were also visiting). The service was pretty good! I liked how things were run so smoothly.. like the transitions between things – from singing, to video, to prayer, to singing, to sermon, to communion. Very smooth and seamless. There was no “And now we’ll have some singing…” and then waiting for the musicians to go up and get set up. And it was good how the service was very youth-friendly (being a service mostly made up of high schoolers, I think?) – the sermon was easy to understand, with very little jargon, and had lots of interesting illustrations. The music was vibrant and energetic (using lots of hillsong I noticed.. in fact I think 100% of the songs were hillsong that night! Lots of songs from United Live latest album too.) Personally, I think I’d probably prefer the 6pm service (for a slightly older crowd) – though I have yet to try it.

The Arts Festival afterwards was good.. despite it being absolutely freezing standing around outside! I liked the last band that played (dunno their name?), esp when they played “One Way”! 🙂 And the short “Church” drama was absolutely hilarious! Very very clever! The dance was kinda cool too (using the song from the end of Honey – which reminds me.. I wanna see that movie again!)

So here I am, back at work, and feeling pretty tired. How miserable is the weather today. Yeuch! Cold, wet, and grey skies. 🙁 I really should be skiing. *sigh* (I’m obsessed, I know.. but its the best season in 13 years!!!! And I’m missing out on all that fresh POW! *cries*)

Current listening :: “What’s Up Lonely” – Kelly Clarkson

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