Saturday, November 07, 2009

Where Everybody Knows Your Name...

....or at least one person.

Tonight Husband, Ethan and I were out to dinner a town or two over from ours. We were sitting outside at a burger place, sharing a plate of sweet potato fries (because my diet is going so super).

As I dipped my fry in whatever that little taste of heaven dip they have there is, I heard someone say, "Hey, Sarah!" It was a new friend of mine, who happened to be walking by and recognized me sitting there with my family. We introduced our husbands to each other, made tentative plans for a play date next week and they went on their way.

Before we moved here, I lamented that I didn't want to go through the effort and expend the energy to make new friends yet again. That it was exhausting and took all the strength of my self-confidence to put myself out there. But you know what? Having someone recognize me, and call out to say "hi" to me and my family on a Saturday night in a crowd of people? That moment made it all worth it. I will continue to take deep breaths and put myself out there and quilt together a patchwork of community.

4 comments:

Becca said...

YAY! That is so good to hear. I love being recognized in public. LOVE IT. It made it so hard to move away from our little town of 200,000 where we had lived for nine years and could find a familiar face pretty much anywhere. But I'm starting to feel that way here now that I go to the same three places every single day (Starbucks, grocery, church).

cicadalady said...

you're such a great addition to the community there, i'm sure you will meet people in no time. i know what you mean though about it being a bit daunting, especially since we just did it last year! so glad i met you and jane in LA!

Sarah said...

so cool! you're so friendly and adorable, how could you NOT make friends?

gringa said...

That's fabulous and so soon...:-)