Timeless Friends

So I wondered, where are my friends?

My first friends are my sisters and cousins. I was once an U.S. Army wife, so I have friends from the time.

I am a ‘go with the flow’ with kind of friend. I am up for new adventures. I have friends I have not seen in years but when we get together, it is like no time has passed.

I am still in contact with some high school friends thanks to Facebook. I have many more friends that came to be from a former workplace. I have friends made in adulthood at different stages of my life.

I worked at a financial institution and I have many friends from that stage of my life, and now friends from a non-profit where I am now employed.

I am grateful for every friend I have or have had. They have all taught me something about myself that I don’t see how I could have learned elsewhere. Some wanted to ‘fix me’, some wanted to have a ‘good time’ and some I geniunely wondered, ‘how are we friends’.

The pandemic of 2020 tested the foundations of all my friendships. If not for Facebook/IG I probably wouldn’t know what’s going on. Unfortunately, I allowed myself to be disappointed in my friends. I received no phone calls, no texts, no cards, no checking up. The phone works both ways and I know should reached out as well. I mailed encouraging/funny greeting cards and for all I know- none of them were received. I learned not to do something to expect anything in return. That was an important lesson for me.

So I wondered what makes a geniune friend? In my opinion, a collection of women and that we are there for one another, all the time, through the good, the bad and ugly makes a good friend.

This year I am working on nourishing the friendships I have. My goal is to lift one another up and simply, be there.

Thank you for being a friend.