My Best Friend
So the phone rang at work yesterday, and a name I did not know popped up on my Caller ID.
I just knew it wouldn’t be for me. However, a very professional, manly voice asked, “May I please speak to Adina?”
“This is she.”
“Adina?”
“Yes. This is she. May I help you, please?”
Hysterical laughter burst out at me from the other end of the line.
And a very non-professional, country voice said, “This is ALAN!”
Alan being my best friend!
And mind you, we do not have to say our names to the other when we call. We usually left off mid-sentence and jump right into the conversation from the previous time!
But we both had our work voices on yesterday.
And I almost spit my coffee out when in the midst of the laughter Alan says to me, “I almost didn’t recognize you; you sounded so nice!”
I couldn’t even deny it!
I DO speak to him in a different voice, but then he does that to me too!
The truth is, most of do have split personalities!
We are a mom here, and maybe a business man there.
Teacher here. Learner there.
Or as Alan would put it, I am nice here….not there!!
And always, the one is put aside for the other.
I don’t act with Alan the way I would at work, nor would he want me to. And I certainly don’t act at work the way I do with him. The constant outbursts of laughter would get me in trouble.
But yet we bring all these people to the gym with us every day.
Gym time is just as important as anything else we do, and to make the best of it, we need to leave all those other people behind.
How many times do you see someone working out in street clothes? They brought someone else to the gym with them.
What about the person tied to their cell phone? They brought someone else with them too.
Just as I put away nice, professional Adina to spend time with my best friend, I put everyone and everything away when I go to the gym.
I am not a worker, a learner, or even a friend. I am a gym rat for that time.
There really is no other way to do it.
And for the record…I have no intentions of being any nicer to my best friend! He will just have to like it or lump it! There is only one person I am nice to all the time, and he is not it!
