The people you meet!

As we go along though life we'll start to add more to this area of the people we meet. It's a case of trying to keep things anecdotal, but also at a level where people will not get hurt if they read about themselves and think that we are picking fun at them...

Friends and Acquaintances

There is also a bunch of commentary about people in Mike's past on both the relationships and e-pals pages.

Wolly & Patsy

For starters, Wolly (a mate from school days) and Patsy also met on the Internet via ICQ. The pictures below are from their wedding day.

Zep & Debbie

Another mate from schooldays that we still manage to catch up with about once a year. So much has changed from school days for both of us.

Digby & Shan Shan

A mate from work that has shared a lot of good times and bad times with me.

Bob & Anita

A lovely couple from Broome travelling in a large motorhome whom we met in Kinka Beach.

John & Bev

Another lovely couple in Hervey Bay who are into caravanning and travelling this great land. (They also met via ICQ!)

Tobias & Verena

A young German couple we met travelling down the east coast of Australia in a campervan. We first met in Airlie Beach and bumped into each other again at Southport on the Gold Coast.

The art of making friends

It is quite fascinating meeting people and sharing moments of yourself and your history with each other. Where those moments are found to be mutually interesting, there is a chance that a friendship may strike up. As further shared moments reveal more and more about the person who is sharing them, either of you may find your interest in the other person or the events they share with you to be less appealing. As most people want others to like them (there are those that want fear, or some other strong emotional response instead), they will tend to share the things about themselves that they feel will make them more appealing first. If they don't feel they are totally accepted, they probably won't share parts about themselves of them that may be less appealing.

If you end up just genuinely enjoying each other and you both continue to share, a friendship will probably grow.

Fear or Fantasy?

Shona holds the view that everyone is motivated by either fear or fantasy. Those with the greatest fears spend more time in touch with fantasy.