1. Unexpected phone calls from old friends. Doesn’t matter if you live in the same city, and talk to one another every ten days or so.
2. Hearing this particular old friend sound more relaxed and himself than has been usual.
3. New ‘imaginary friends’ – the people I only know on-line and may never meet in real life. Imaginary or not, they support me and encourage me and mean a lot to me.
4. Local friends, old and and not-so-old, who are also there for me.
5. Knowing that this fatigue thing is real and has an underlying cause, can be dealt with using a combination of medication and judicious conservation/parcelling out of energy.
6. (It’s my journal and I’ll add a sixth if I want to!) Sunlight outside, after a week or more of overcast skies and flurries.
6> YE GODS YES. Sunlight, sunlight, ye gods, sunlight, I very nearly danced down Ste-Catherine.
As I said to Jan today, “And the fact that I am calling this cold vague light ‘sunlight’ and am happy to see it points to how dreary it’s been.”
I feel as I imagine a fictional character must feel.
*pokes self*
Some fictional characters I’ve encountered in the pages of books are more vivid and alive than people I’ve met in the flesh. Jilly Coppercorn, for example.
I *adore* your list. As I do, you.
Hugs from snowy Southern Ontario