simont | (no subject)

As an afterthought to that lot ... It's not really applicable in this case, but I feel like sharing some words of great wisdom which were sent to me the last time I posted that sort of whinge in this diary. (For those reading on Livejournal: this was some years ago while this diary was only available on Monochrome.)

I'd spent a frustrating afternoon trying to find some company, but everyone I tried to visit or telephone was already occupied with something else. Eventually I'd managed to phone one friend, but after a quarter of an hour she was phoned on another line by someone more important and had to put the phone down on me. So I wrote a morose diary entry about all this, in which I complained that it would be nice to have just one person to whom I was occasionally more important than something else.

Clare sent me a response in which she pointed out that if I myself didn't qualify as such a person, I was doing something very wrong. Of course it didn't really cheer me up at the time, but in retrospect I decided it was a piece of True Wisdom and should be remembered in case it came in useful in the future.