what a lovely start to my day...

so this might be a bit lengthy...

yesterday i met up with a former westpac colleague who has become a friend - actually virtually from the time we met, we got on really well...

so we hadn't caught up for a while and yesterday we had lunch - it was lovely...nice to catch up on a lot of news, to chat and just to hang out...

so of course we talk about my recent break-up coz she's keen to know how i am doing etc etc...and she say to me 'i don't want to say i told you so but do you remember that conversation...?' etc etc

so essentially she tells me 'she told me so' - see a few months into things i was having a rough time with something and i sort of mentioned it to her without going into any details - of course now i can't even remember what it was all about...

she asked me then what my friends and family had said following the break up - i said nothing really - and that most people had simply been concerned for me etc...so she says she's sorry, that she shouldn't have said anaything and i just said, i get it, it's fine etc etc but of course a part of me was thinking that it's easier when people don't offer their views, even when they come from a place of good intention, which hers did...

sooo now to the good bit - the start of my day today - i see my phone flashing with her number before 9am this morning and i pick up...she starts by saying she's sorry and that she shouldn't have done the i told you so - when i said it was fine, it was just her caring for me and not wanting to be hurt, she says (something like this) no, actually it's because i have you on a pedestal - i think you are amazing, capable, articulate etc and i judged him as someone who wasn't your equal....

amazing! and how lovely of her to realise that what she said might not have been what i wanted to hear and possibly hurtful...i was really touched that she chose to call and to say sorry...so i told her that she should hurry up and join my on the pedestal as some days the view up here ain't that great!