You are a great friend and I thank you for the great post to me. You made my day!!
I will confess that when my "mother" died, she went after my "dad", both were very shall we say mean?! It hurt to have to call a hospital a long distance away and be told from a hospital staff member that she passed and both of my siblings had been there all day.
When my "mom" died, my "parents" left my younger sister a 23 acre hobby farm and cash. My older brother got $2.2 million U.S. dollars and I got ZERO. In fact I was told to stay away from BOTH of my "parents" funerals. Have not spoke to either sibling in over 30 years, their choice. So on that aspect I have just gotten used to having no family.
As far as friends goes, I am very liberal as far as pro choice, I am very much LGBTQ , we are ALL the same period, I do not believe in organized religion..etc, with these opinions and/or thoughts the folks around me where I live that I have contact with have a 100% different value system and well, lets say we clash. So I have no physical friends to speak of.
Somedays, I will 100% say, that I miss having a physical human around me and I always am open to having friends as long as they are open minded. One discriminates against one person it is against all to me. I was VERY, VERY poor growing up, food, shirt on my back, roof over my head, that was it and in school I was picked on a lot because I was poor and I HATED it, and told myself when I became a adult I would never ever be that way ever.
I had a significant other till last fall, 2020, and I found out that she cleaned me out of a lot of money that I had saved up. I had her leave and have not had any physical friends since.
I am always open but at my age it is tougher and so I have mentally resolved the fact that places like SS are my family and friends. Physical? No, but on a mind set like mind where every soul is important and their thoughts are also. Where no one discriminates against one another.
It is very hard, no joke and I will confess, that there are a few days where a physical hug or smile or someone in ones corner to go with like to the doctors or likewise and it is something that I just get through.
So I hope this answers some of your questions. I am a open book and I consider all of SS my family and have no problem talking about my past.
You are a very beautiful soul with a heart of gold and so, so much going for you. I dislike saying this in a way, but at 65, reference point only, having bumped around through the decades I, like everyone does, have gathered some life experiences as such that I firmly believe that you WILL be awesome.
You are bright, loving , caring and all the qualities that make a person a fantastic person and you will go far, I 100% believe in you hands down.
Thank you for the lovely post, you are a saint and I am always around and I send you a beautiful sunny blue sky filled with puffy white clouds to enjoy.
Walter