As exhaustion takes over and responsibilities continue to pile on. My abilities to keep juggling the balls of life become more and more difficult. I have a friend who through university we were relatively inseparable. Each holiday and birthday we would be side by side. Often because my mother was away spending her vacations with my grandmother who had Alzheimer’s as a result I was left alone for much of the holiday season. Her family took me in and it was with them that I spent my Christmases, Thanksgiving and Birthdays.

I have been making a half assed effort to keep in contact with her and keep our friendship a float. I say half assed because I am not much of a phone person. Plus over the last few years our life has changed tremendously. I am a homeowner two jobs etc. She is a Working mom, main breadwinner that works a 50 hour work week. With our busy lives it becomes more and more difficult to keep in contact. Despite this we always find the time to say Happy Birthday… until now. I forgot her birthday. This is something that I never do especially to those close to me. I will be doing my best to make it up to her., but it ways on me heavy on how much it must have hurt her for her special day to arrive and for me not to be there to wish her well.