I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang,
when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing
here isn't that I have a book published, but that there
are so many people to thank.
Louise Penny nailed it, no? I haven't felt the pit of loneliness for a very long time, but I remember it. Sometimes the void was filled with chocolate or inadequate boyfriends and we all know the former is better than the latter. Friendships truly are little blessings - be it old friends who knew you when you had the baddest hair and biggest glasses, or new friends you met over Twitter. There's a bulletin board in my den, and it's absolutely plastered with photos of loved ones - from the faded pic of me and my sis sitting on our pet cow Susie when we were 3 and 5, to the latest pic of a sweet friend's little boys. There is no room for lonely here.
