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Acceptance Vs. Understanding
Learning to love people better
The other day I had a friend over for a visit.
I had explained to her before she came over that, thanks to cancer and an early morning visit to Texas Oncology followed by session with my physical therapist, I was low energy.
She still acted hurt when I told she’d have to leave after about an hour.
I understood.
After all, she’s only 23 years old.
Adolescents have always been self-centered. I know I was when I was in my teens. These days, people often act like that into their late 20s/early 30s.
However, later in the conversation I was a bit more outspoken with her.
She was talking about her plans for the coming week.
One reason I’d agreed to see her that day even though I was busy and knew I’d be tired — because she would be out of town from Wednesday morning until Sunday night and she sent me a text saying she really missed me. I hadn’t seen her in several months, and if I do chemo I probably won’t want to see anyone for a while.
So I asked her over and while we chatted she shared her upcoming plans.
She was really excited — one of her college friends was now a working model and she was…
