It's weird how we can find ourselves getting attached to people we barely know, but see a lot.
I've actually gotten pretty friendly with a couple of women horseback riders, one older and one younger, I see on my bike rides, when I see them coming I'll stop, we'll say hi, it's nice out, how are you, that kind of stuff, but now I haven't seen them since before I wiped out last month. We did actually introduce ourselves a couple weeks before I wiped out, so we were getting a bit friendlier. After my wipeout, I didn't get back out for 2 or 3 weeks, since I had to wait for my hands to heal and to get my bike fixed, but I've been out almost every day for the last couple weeks and there's been no sign of them, and I usually see them once or twice a week. The last time I saw one of them, the older lady was driving down to stables, and stopped to let me know the younger one, who had been
very pregnant the last few times I saw them, had her baby a day or two before. So I'm hoping they're just busy with the baby, or maybe going out later now that it's colder in the morning, and not because something went wrong with the baby. I'm possibly going to start going out later myself, partly because I'm getting cold, and partly to see if I see them. It sounds funny, but I kind of miss seeing them.
There were also a couple older ladies I saw a lot, but who I haven't seen in even longer, so I'm wonder what's going on with them too. They were never that friendly, so to be honest, I'm not nearly as concerned as I am about the other two.
And there used to be a guy that my mom and I used to always saw sitting at the same table at one of the parks where we walk our dogs, and we realized a few weeks back that he had disappeared. We never talked to him or anything, but he was always there, at the same table right in front of where we park, and now it's been kind of weird not seeing him when we get there.
They only care about "life" before it's born. After then, fuck 'em.
This reminds me of a story my mom told me she read online. There was a woman who was planning on getting an abortion, and some pro-lifer tried to talk her out of it, so the woman asked if they wanted to adopt her baby after it was born because she couldn't or didn't want to take care of it, but the pro-life wanted nothing to do with it. Which was taken as proof that they don't actually care what happens to the baby after it's born.
