childhood friends

Yesterday I spoke to my oldest friend .  I love her dearly. We have known each other since we were in diapers. We have been through a lot together and it is always good to talk with her. When we talk it is as though time has stood still. For just that moment, I am young again sharing good conversation with her on her front steps or up in my bedroom.  

When we talked yesterday, we did something we seem to do more and more often lately.We reminisced. I really enjoy it. I love remembering the things we did as well as who we were many, many years ago. We are very different people and yet a lot of who we are has remained the same.

I hope you have a friend you have known forever. Someone you grew up with. Someone who knows your family history. Someone you have great memories with.  I do. We had pillow fights, food fights, shaving cream vs whipped cream fights. She threw water on me to wake me up and I forced her to get up at the crack of dawn to go running. We snuck into porno films to see what the big deal was and tried Sushi for the first time together. We slept over each other's house and shared our first bottle of imported champagne together.

We dreamed of our weddings and our children and our future together. We shared our dream jobs, dream homes, and dream men with each other. We laughed, shared, cried, dated, broke up, married, divorced, widowed, and had children together. We have lived our lives together ... always ... even when she moved away and we stopped seeing each other almost daily. That is true blue, true gold friendship. I am glad she was my friend growing up and I am glad we are still friends. She knows who I was and how I have changed. There are things that have happened in my life that she was there for and I don't have to explain. She can often read my thoughts and sometimes she even says what I am thinking before I do. She is my friend and I love her.

We all need an old friend. Someone we have known all our lives. They are a mirror to our past; a barometer to our future. All of you out there with friends you have known for years, cherish them and ... the next time you see them, give them a hug. They have earned it ... and so have you

til next time... take care of you