It was like putting on slippers, or slipping into you favorite sweater come winter. An easy fit.
Some say you spend your whole life looking for friends. What if you made them without trying? What if it just happened and you were almost a spectator in your own life?
Sometimes it happens. Maybe you are 5 and you are both thrown into kindergarten, away from your mothers for the first time, still sucking that thumb. Maybe you are 18, away from home for the first time and scared to death. Maybe you are 30 and have just had your first child. You being plural. You and this new friend.
Maybe you are both from catholic families. Or maybe one of you scrambled across a border to begin a better life while the other one of you was living it.
I have known these.
I spent Friday night with old dear friends and saturday night with friends made during my adulthood.
I could not, would not change a moment in my friendship with any of these people.
You spend your first 18 years thrown into social situations. To some degree your friends are already made. If you are one of the lucky ones, you go to college.... and start to make friends on your own. Afterwards, work should bring new friends. Then children.
What a lucky girl am I.....
My old shoes, my new shoes, they all fit. I treasure the vintage finds and relish the new.
Here's to you: Buck, Missy, Rebecca, Ceily, Nestor, Lori, Susan, Liz V., Liz w., Dusty, Wendy, Rich, Leah, Tom, Pam, Winthrop, Candice, Bill, Tanya, Kristen, Bruno, Michele, Angie Jackson, Heather, Jennifer, Melissa, Lisa, Blaire, Jenny, Annelliott, Drewry, Jack, you countless others who have made me laugh, sing, dance and cry. And most especially to Tim.
Life isn't what you think you have accomplished... its the people along the way who got you there.
Thank you.
2 comments:
Maybe you worked at a place where everyone was crazy and you couldn't drink soda out of a can.
Your post is so well written as always. True friends are such a treasure!
Given my current circumstances, I would be curled up in a ball in the corner if not for the love and support of dear friends like you. I'm so lucky to be included on your list.
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