Quote: How do you emotionally, intellectually pick up the phone and call her with little or no reason? I simply cannot break through some self-imposed barriers.
I hardly ever consider anything intellectually about it. I feel I have something to tell her or ask her or say and I call. My emotions aren't much in it either. I like talking to her, but I usually don't think much about them either. For example, the other day at Menards I noticed they had $5.99 computer games. I noticed one that was an expansion pack for a game I thought the kids had been playing. I call and say..."is that the game". Just like that. There is no mental barrier. Then I say...what are your plans for tonight? Want to go to War of the WOrlds? I can do it easily without reason (last night I called and said "just wanted to say Hi") because she greets me warmly and she talks to me. If she sounded crabby all the time I'd just forget it. Many times I have an excuse, at least a little one. I've just gotten so used to calling that the barriers to it have come down. It wasn't always so easy. It's just gotten more comfortable to call over time and she comfortably calls me. Don't know if that answered the question.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
