My Exercise yesterday consisted of mowing the lawn, biking to my friends house, walking 3+miles and biking home. What we put our legs through in a day is monumental...think about what strength our legs allow us to carry, participate in, keep us standing as well as functioning. How grateful I am to be allowed to utilize them in this way.
On our walk my dearest friend is coping with caring for her 94 year old mother, these walks are twofold, one so she can vent, and two so I get exercise. We were discussing yesterday about friendship and that true friends will allow you to vent about the same subject for a long period of time(even years), free from judgement or complaint of having to listening to the same subject over and over, that is just what friends do. I totally agree, I don't know how I would have managed to get through the trials of my divorce years ago,with out good friends, as well as being there for friends when one of them needed some council at 2 A.M. I also believe that we are sent friends to be teachers or mentors.
So one of my thoughts yesterday as we walked and I listened, was that although I am not experiencing the same trail as my dear friend, these walks and venting might be preparing me for the same situation, since my mother is not quite 80, but still very independent.
"A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should."
~ Unknown
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