Hi Grace and Tyrone! I care about the two of you!
I know that a few people genuinely care about me. I have a fair number of friends but to say that they genuinely care and are there for you through thick and thin is a much smaller number. My oldest brother and I have been there for each other since we were teens. I agree, if you have one true friend, you are pretty blessed. For me faith, knowing that God cares, is important to me.
For my mom it's been a tough lesson that most witnesses don't truly care about her. Words are meaningless unless it's backed up with action. For the past year since her husband's death they have, for the most part, ignored her. I guess she has been labelled as being very weak, which she acknowledges she is.
After going to church with us in the morning last Sunday she felt she needed to go to the hall and I guess it was a bad experience because she won't talk about it. I assume that they are cool with her because she has only gone to the hall on a Sunday a few times in the past year and never goes door to door anymore, never goes to any of the meetings. She is taking Alpha at church for the second time and enjoys it more this time. She keeps going back because she feels that people genuinely seem to care about her. It doesn't mean that there aren't caring people within the org, because I'm sure there are, just like there are mean spirited in the church, but her experience has been very positive from the church.