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An excitement/anxiety cocktail

Brockster
Brockster

I'm seeing a friend today who I haven't seen in like 13 years or something. She was a really good friend... she was actually the best woman at my wedding. But, like so often happens, we drifted apart, our lives took difference courses and we stopped seeing each other and then stopped communicating. I had made a decision back around Thanksgiving or so to reach out to old friends who I'd lost contact with and started texting with a couple of them. So, now we're here.


I'm excited to see her and hang out for a while, but I'm also anxious about it. Life has been all kinds of stressful lately, and this is something decidely outside of the norm. I woke up a littler earlier than usual this morning feeling anxious, but was able to focus on deep breathing and relaxing my muscles and move through the anxiety. It's still there, but it's just a passenger in the back of the bus... it's not driving.


Anyway, just wanted to put that out there while I sit here waiting for people to wake up so I cana do some chores and whatnot to help pass the time until she and her husband get here.

arfie
arfie
More and more, I wonder if reception is the entire difference between "excitement" and "anxiety." One is welcome. The other is not. Either way, the back of the bus is an appropriate place for the passenger. Neither one makes a good driver.

Here's to hoping the reunion is a satisfying one. At worst, you'll have one less unanswered question in the repository.

I'm not quite sure how. but this post got a Neil Young classic caught in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgZbtAtjdv0
Brockster
Brockster
I've thought about that as well... and it's something we've been talking to my daughter about with her going off to college. If you drew a Venn diagram, excitement and anxiety would have a whole lot of overlap. A roller coaster can be terrifying and anxiety-inducing and that's essentially what makes it exciting. I think that the idea of the "reception" is really interesting... something I'll have to spend some time mulling over.

Thanks for the song... good old Neil.
GreenEyes727
GreenEyes727
That's so cool! I tried to contact a really good old friend on her birthday two days ago through her son on Facebook Messenger but it doesn't look like he's going to see it. I am so happy for you! I hope you have a really good time.
mtd
mtd
I hope you get thru this by just being yourself, that’s good enough.
Brockster
Brockster
Thanks all. It was great seeing them. We hung our for like 3 hours, had a great time. Pretty much all of the anxiousness/nervous excitement I was feeling disappeared as soon as I opened the door to them.
GirlinCalif
GirlinCalif
Glad you had a great time!

I think that was "normal" anxiety (hard to tell sometimes what is normal and natural anxiety and what is not!). You hadn't seen her in 13 years and you don't know what to expect, how it will go, have they changed.... etc. I think most people would feel at least a little nervous before that kind of meeting.

Glad it all worked out for you! :)
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