Girlfriends

The power and importance of female friendship means so much to me.  When I was married to my first husband he could not understand my desire to be with my girlfriends and did all he could to prevent me spending time with them.  He described them as dull unimaginative women and why waste time with them.  I have a special place in my heart for my girlfriends and their problems and joys.  When I am with my girlfriends I feel rich.  My girlfriends don't care that I live in a small two bedroom house in a poor district of town.  There is so much joy in knowing you can be with someone who doesn't judge you.  Someone who accepts you just the way you are.  Something my husband never could quite understand.  His loss.  I kicked him out and added girlfriends to my life.

I get together as often as possible with my friends.  I am blessed with many friends so I usually have at least one day a week that I am with a girlfriend.  Last week I had dinner with a group of ladies I had worked with for years.  We try to get together monthly but it usually is more like every other month because life gets in the way of our outings.  These evenings out are a chance for the ladies to let down their hair, drink, update friends about new adventures in their lives and laughs.  Mostly laughs.  Girlfriends can make me laugh like no one else can.  And so it was with this evening but have you ever had one of those times when from the very beginning you knew this was going to be a night to remember?  That is the way this evening felt.  Each lady told her story but it wasn't just a story.  It was a feeling of joy and exhilaration.  One lady had pictures of the beautiful baby girl she and her husband were in the process of adopting from Korea, another told her experience with her ethologist and another told us of a drunk her propositioned her in a rather unique way in a local bar and on and on.  I laughed so much I thought I'd pee my pants.  These occasions are normally girls only events but this particular evening a man accompanied one of the ladies.  I must say, there must have been some pretty uneasy moments for him throughout the evening.  But for the ladies the evening was much too short.

Our daily routine lives can overwhelm us at times.  Friendships take that stress and turns it upside down.  They turn a stressful world into a nonsensical fun world.  Thought for the day:  It's the friends we meet along life's way who make the trip more fun.  Thank you ladies, I love you.