angiepants [one pocket at a time]

On things you collect but never know 100%

You know what’s wild?  How much you don’t know about most people.  Yes, you gather tidbits of their history, their likes, their manners through conversations here and there, but how much total to do you really know about them?

Go through the majority of your good friends and even your family.  It’s usually a game of catch up with a friend and you might not even realize you don’t know everything about your parents. 

Just a couple of years ago, I found out one of my grandfather’s was an alcoholic.  That put a huge perspective change of my mother, my nanny, and the family dynamic she had to go through growing up (That grandfather has passed away when I was 10 so I have difficulty picturing  him as anything other than Good Ole’ “Tickly grandpa”). 

Or just the past couple of years I’ve gotten closer to some friends while trying to jump around between the old.  It’s embarrassing when you realize you don’t know what their plans for after graduating are, what the status is with their siblings.  It’s only through shared time and stories that you really have history and friendship. 

It’s easy to be interested in so many things and intrigued by so many people during your walk of life, but it’s key to add and grow onto those connections you’ve already made.  In a society that faults for wanting more, let’s not crave more food, more gizmos and gadgets, more money, but let’s crave more out of the people we surround ourselves with.  Get those stories from when they grew up, their high school experience, what they struggled with, what things they find most important in life.  Discovering and uncovering more about those you care about is the best gift imaginable.