P day- Prevention is the perfect remedy

Please be a friend and help prevent suicide Call on a friend you haven’t heard from in a while! 

P day- Prevention is the perfect remedy 

This was posted by a friend and I thought it would be a great post to pass on to all. Make your EEyore friends day today!

 

, It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh.

"Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet," said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice.

"We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."

"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less.

(A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard)

      Even I feel like Eeyore many days and I don’t hear from many. But I do call my dearest older friends, the ones who have lost all their friends of the age in death. It really does help both of us. Just to lend an ear makes a person happy especially when they get up in their years. I love to hear the stories of their life. Friendships shouldn't end just because you are many miles away from each other. there  is always a way to keep in contact. Maybe a surprise visit or  send a nice card or letter in the mail. You know so many of us don't write a hand written letter anymore because we just jump on the computer  or phone and text  We sometimes don't even call. Thinking of the littlest things can make a person's day. Don't get so set in your own schedule that you don't have the time to call and say hi or I love you. It just might mean the difference.