找，找，找朋友
(zhao, zhao, zhao pengyou)
找到一个好朋友
(zhao dao yi ge hao pengyou)
It means: “I look, look,
look for a friend; I look and find a good friend.” Actually, I
thought my teacher had made it up until I heard it recently on a song
of Chinese children's songs. Enjoy it here with some awesome
karaoke:
Anyway, I digress as usual, but this
seemed a fitting song today. I've been feeling lonely lately. I
miss my friends. I was finding myself reading a TON of blogs by
other women, many of whom I had never met. It seemed like I was
obsessed with this, and could spend hours reading other women's
stories. Finally, I realized that this was an attempt to fill my
loneliness with virtual friends, and it's probably not so healthy...
As I mentioned in in my last post, I know it will take some
time to form deeper friendships here in Toronto, but in the meantime,
I crave connection sometimes.
Enter my old friend... the telephone.
Today I called up my former roommate Dana, a woman whom I love so
much and who was such an encouragement to me in my Christian walk.
We actually had been emailing back and forth regarding some
practical, but this afternoon I decided it would be better to actually hear her
voice. We talked for TWO HOURS. I didn't even realize until then
how much I missed this kind of connection. It felt like old times,
when we were living together and would be in deep conversation,
stopping at intervals to say, “We should really go to bed,” only
to talk for another 30 minutes. We talked about marriage, friends,
children, cats, baby names (even though neither of us are pregnant,
FYI). It was just what I needed. Thanks to God for good Christian
girlfriends!
PS You can see more of the Chinese
children's album that I bought here. These kids are so cute!!
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