Sunday reunion

From time to time I realize that I spend too much time on routines, days go by and I keep repeating the same activities over and over again, as if I were in automatic mode.

Fortunately, there is always someone who makes a call or sends a text message to remind me that life is much more than just a schedule of chores.

That's what happened to me this week. On Saturday my wife showed me a message that had arrived on her cell phone. It was from a great friend we hadn't seen for a long time. In her message she was making a kind of complaint, asking us if everything was all right, telling us that she was very surprised that it had been almost three months since we last saw each other.

My wife and I looked at each other's faces and were shocked. We read the message again to confirm the dates and it actually said three months. We both wondered how we had let three months go by without meeting our friend. Right then and there we decided to fix the situation.

In a return message we asked her if she had plans for Sunday and invited her over for a chat and a few cups of coffee.

At four o'clock our friend arrived. After greetings, we went to the kitchen, set up the pot on the stove, and began our pleasant conversation. The aroma of coffee was cheering us up more and more.

Among the news that had accumulated in that long time without seeing each other was some good news. Our friend's youngest son was preparing to become a father. In our last conversation she had told us that her son was worried because his wife could not get pregnant, they had started a hormone treatment and were waiting for the results. Fortunately everything had gone well and the girl was pregnant.

That news made us very happy, we knew how much our friend wanted to be a grandmother for the second time, four years ago her eldest son had given her the first grandchild. When you are a grandparent for the first time, you want to continue experiencing that feeling as many times as you can. There is something special about being a grandparent, it is a more relaxed kind of affection, life experience makes us see our grandchildren in a completely different way than we saw our children.

While we were talking, one of my sisters-in-law who lives nearby arrived, and who is also about to become a grandmother for the first time. We told her the great news about our friend and she also wanted to join us for coffee. After a while they decided to play a few games of cards that lasted until the early hours of the night

That nice meeting left me thinking how easy it is to have a good time, practically the only thing you need is a good disposition. Of course, if we have a good coffee and close friends, so much the better.

After those meetings I always promise myself that I won't let routines steal my time to share with friends. Let's see if I can keep it...

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