Count Me Lucky

Count me lucky to have such a friend/colleague as Kylie Johnson . I have known Kylie for several years now and as her website says, she really is a "hopeless romantic". She is also clever and hard working, and totally deserving of all her successes. Tonight I get to share in one her recent, and very exciting, successes by attending the launch of her first book of poetry (go-getter Kylie has self-published several books before!).


Talking about Kylie here has led me to think about why I am friends with her. Why are we compatible? I had often thought that our work was very different, and our
personalities too. Not that I had ever thought of that as a bad thing, but rather that was just the thing of it. Thinking a little more about us and probably due to having some time away, I realize that I am very much like Kylie. I am many
of the things she is, but I am also many of the things that she is not. I guess if there is a secret of me, is that if I am one thing it is very likely that I am also the direct opposite of that too. Coming to understand the truth of that helps me understand such things as why I am flexible, adaptable, emotional, and can take a long time to make a decision and reach a conclusion. Seeing both sides can be a real pain sometimes.

Like Kylie I will admit to being a hopless romantic. It is just that I am also a
die-hard cynic as well. I wouldn't say no to flowers, or some heart shaped thing, but filling my letterbox up with packets of musk lifesavers ( Juno reference) would be so much better. But who me needs romance! Not me! Maybe me?