Never Give Up…You Just Don’t Know

what is waiting around the corner….

A long term friend who lost her boyfriend – they had lived together for 15 yrs before his death – rang me to tell me the following

She said that she has been so depressed, she was fighting this urge of giving up, of taking her own life. (You would never have known as she always seemed so together) She had even got her finanicals sorted with the thought of leaving the pain behind.

But last month as she was coming home from work, her car broke down. She was thinking this is a sign, life is just not for me. Then a guy stopped and helped her, they started talking and as it happens he was a widower and felt the same numbness. He has 3 children and was struggling to cope with helping them, working and looking after himself.

As you can guess they had much to talk about and over the last few weeks a chance meeting, has turned into friendship and now a little more. Neither were looking for love, neither thought they were ready to meet anyone else. Now as she says this may fizzle out, it may not be a long term relationship…but for now she is loving every moment of their friendship. She never had children so being part of a family is very different and wonderful for her.

It just shows that when you feel there is nothing to live for….you never know what is around the other side of the bonnet! I wish her well…..