The Power of Friendship

This post should complement my video (right below this line) I made recently, both dealing with friendship.

I've detailed in the past how important friends are to me. I'm the tin man and friendship is the oil that keep me from rusting to a stand still.

When I moved to Houston I was not scared for any reasons that my dad was. I was confident in my abilities dealing with finances. I was sure of my common sense for risky situations.

No.

What I was terrified of was spending the next few years working in a job, that might make me happy and yet lack a very key thing.

I'm sure you guessed it already.

Friends.

I was honestly terrified that my life would be go to work, come home, play video games, sleep, and repeat. That sounds nice and all until you actually get there. When you're only leaving the house to go to work you realize that something huge is missing.

"It's alright because I interact with my team so I get my human interaction there."

I told myself.

I told others.

Inside I was worried.

What if I don't get to the point of hanging with my team outside of work?

What if I only ever hang out with people when I drive back to Austin?

So I made one resolve.

Get involved.

Hewlett-Packard has a really cool program called YEN (Young Employee Network) that's run by young employees with the goal of bringing them together.

I signed up for the mailing list, and went on with my time.

Until a team member sent the following, "Hey there's this Top Golf thing tonight. I don't know if you got it."

Top Golf? I'm in!

That's where it all started.

I got to go with some coworkers, and we met up with the YEN people.

Here's where it starts. Here's where some of the most amazing people step into my life.

Since then, I've jumped at every opportunity to hang out with/meet people.

World Cup?

YEAH!

Schlitterbahn??

OF COURSE!!

Playing Soccer???

ALWAYS!!!

Billy Joel by Michael Cavanaugh????

COUNT ME IN!!!!

And so much more.

It's really strange how seamless it is to make friends. There's no formula I could follow, and there's no way I could make a how to.

Making friends is something that terrifies me because it isn't something logical.

I recently got access to an old e-mail account. My middle school e-mail account to be exact.

I was a terrible eighth grader. I should have had no friends based on my responses to things in e-mails, and yet somehow I magicked some amazing friends.

I've grown up tremendously since then, and yet I still feel like I should drive people away at times.

Yet for whatever reason, friendship doesn't work that way. It powers through that.

So, like I said in the video, here's an official invite to be my friend. Someone who I care for regardless of the illogical factors.

When it's all said and done, I'd much rather care too much then not care enough. So, I care for you. I will always care for you.

I hope you are having a wonderful life.

If you aren't, I'm here for you. I love you, and I wish you the best!