"Favorite People"

My entire adult life I have used the term "favorite people" to refer to those who touch my life in some way. Some people use the term 'kindred spirits'. These are those people that I just *click* with. I think it started as a way to describe a guy-friend I had in high school. We never dated - he was just a really great person and a wonderful friend. Since then I've had several people that I've felt that way about - relative strangers, co-workers, friends, family and I've even fallen in love with one or two.


A few years ago, I decided to come up with a way of explaining what the phrase 'Favorite People' actually means to me. I devised the following metaphor. It's not something I believe in literally, just a way of expressing what I mean when I use the term. It goes something like this:

One day in heaven before you were born God came up to you with a pen and a piece of paper and said, "I want you to make me a list of all of your favorite people up here. I know you're about to go to earth and it's may be scary to be cut off from all you know. I want to make it as wonderful an experience for you as possible. Now, I can't guarantee that you will get to spend mortality with everyone on your list. Some may be in your family, some may be your life long friends but many you will only meet for 5 minutes while waiting for a bus or standing in line at a grocery store.

What I will promise is this - when you do meet one you will just know - this is one of your favorite people."

This is the part where I make disclaimers and invoke all sorts of copyright, trademark, patent and magical protection clauses:


The preceding is an original work and is entirely metaphorical in nature. No actual doctrine was invoked in the writing of this post. Any similarities to actual doctrine, past or future, are coincidental. The author claims protection by whatever international, national, maritime,state, local, metaphysical and eternal laws are applicable. The use of this material in talks, fast and testimony meeting, marriage proposals (etc) without prior written consent of the author is strictly prohibited. And, so help me, if this shows up in my email inbox attributed to Maya Angelou, Mother Teresa or Eleanor Roosevelt...... (oh OK, I'll just be honored)