Back "in the day" (a phrase I truely despise, but seems appropriate far too often recently..) I was quite the Social Butterfly. Really. I had so many social obligations to fill that I actually NEEDED a date book...
Once I turned 35 and finally sobered up, those social opportunites seemed a little less important. So I stopped concentrating on them and got busy with my career (which was a total mistake, but that's another BLOG entry..) Funny thing...once you stop looking for social opportunities, they sorta stop making themselves available. Which was fine at the time. I was otherwise engaged.
Fast forward to now. I'm so out of the habit of looking for things to do in my spare time that it amazes me when I get inundated with invitations. And that's what's happened this week.
Suddenly, I've got friends coming in from out-of-town, former co-workers that want to congregate and chat about old times, and I'm being solicited to join a couple of seriously social groups that meet regularly and actually do stuff. Like good deeds, and community service, and all of the things that I think are important (but have never been very seriously involved with).
What did I DO to suddenly become this popular? Nothing that I'm aware of. It must be SPRING, and everybody in the Midwest has decided that their event it not complete without me. And it's not cold outside anymore.
I think that the improvement in weather probably has more to do with this than my magnetic personality. But then again, maybe I still have some of that old Magic...
Hope SPRINGS eternal....
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