My wife says that I flirt with the girls at work. I do not understand. There are some girls who tell me things I have no business knowing, unless they know I am a pastor. But I just listen, say hi, smile and move along doing my work. I guess some think that is flirting.
It reminds me of another girl I met. Quite nice, I thought maybe she was flirting. Sometimes having regular fun
with me. But then I started listening closely and realized how much she was in love with her husband
is misconstrued. I heard later that our boss was fired for misconduct. He must have misunderstood what this gal was doing and tried to hit on her.
Just saying hi, listening and answering back, being friendly and honest can be taken by people who are blinded by their own selfish desires as meaning something completely foreign to our intentions.
I moved around a lot in my younger years. What if I were to try to look up old friends that I left behind? Would I be stalking, flirting, harassing? What about a simple, trying to reestablish old friendships? Why is that so out of the ordinary?
I suppose it could be said that it is weird because so much time has passed, “Why are you looking me up now?”
It’s hard when, like Rip Van Winkle, I was asleep for forty years. I wake up and everything has changed. I wish I could think of a simile that explains this time laps. I keep remembering an old movie where the father was injured at work with a brain injury. He was wheelchair bound and could not talk. The family struggled to make ends meet. At the end of the show he regained his mind looked out the window and asked about the old tree. It was under this tree that he had buried the money that would have taken care of his family in case of an accident.
I woke up, or am still waking up. I reach out and everything has changed. Is it wrong to reach out to old friends, people who were important to me?
Ceg
Written 10/10/17