So mastah complained that I never blog. ...and I have nothing to say to that.

But I have been reading "Words to Live by" by C.S. Lewis, and it has a collection of his lovely thoughts. And I just found a quote that makes me go "Oh!" in such a delightful, sad, happy, lonely, sort of way. So here it is...

"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. Most people exhibit some kind of modesty or bashfulness, at least at the beginning, in receiving any direct statement of another human being's affection for them, even if that affection is quite unrelated to sex or to the body at all. To be valued is an experience which involves a curious kind of self-consciousness. The subject is compelled to remember that it is also an object intently regarded: hence, in a well-ordered mind, feelings of unworthiness and anxiety, mingled with delight, spring up. There seems to be a spiritual, as well as a physical nakedness, fearful of being found ugly, embarrased at being found lovely, reluctant (even when not amorously reluctant) to be found at all."

Oh!

To be found at all!

It makes me happy and sad. Happy that I have lots of good friends...sad that some people are still lost out there.