actually ray - i DID read the rest and i wanted to ask you about
meetin- i "joined" but was reluctant to go to any events cuz...
well, i'm lame but that article was good cuz i totally identified
with a lot of the ppl and felt kinda really stupid that i didn't
have more "friends" to hang out with cuz all i do is work and go
home... so i took the article quite positively and was bolstered
that i'm not the only one out there...
(am i a total loser?)
--- In [email protected], "Ray Bradley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> from Friday's Weekend section...
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400319.html
>
> This is the lede. I am friends with the subject, so I am biased.
If
> you read these first few paragraphs, would you be inclined to read
> the rest?
>
> What would your opinion of Dave be?
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Dave Connolly needed friends.
>
> Which is a tricky predicament. Tricky and kind of banal. And --
let's
> be honest -- a little sad.
>
> By the time you're out there in the world, haven't there been
enough
> opportunities -- in the sandbox and eighth-grade math class and
the
> varsity tennis team and between dorm rooms and cubicle clusters --
to
> pick up a few good friends?
>
> Obviously.
>
> Unless, you know, there weren't. Or there were. There were all
those
> opportunities, and buddies were met and made and then, somehow,
lost.
> Binding ties came unbound.
>
> Maybe there was a marriage. A baby. A transfer, a taxing project,
an
> illness, a changing lifestyle, diverging hobbies, a new
neighborhood,
> a gradual maturing, a big dramatic fight over a guy you were both
> interested in. Maybe your new medical sales job has you sleeping
in
> Reston and creeping along Interstate 66, shaking hands with lots
of
> doctors and nurses and not really getting to know anyone.
>
> Maybe you're Dave Connolly, 29, athletic and outgoing and fun and
> successful, and everything was great and your social calendar was
> booming until one day it just wasn't.
>
> Banal. A little sad. And common enough for this town to support a
> whole host of organizations designed to help people reach out and
> meet someone. Probably lots of someones. Probably in similar
> predicaments.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Do these photos change or affirm your image of Dave?
>
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/BillyGoatTrail050606/photo#5061
6
> 66529504285106
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/BillyGoatTrail050606/photo#5061
6
> 67349843038706
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#50698
1
> 9857564963250
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#50698
2
> 3362258276962
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#50698
2
> 4994345849554
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#50698
2
> 5174734476002
> http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#5
> 069829242068505634
>
