Old friends

You met so many people in your life and everyone changes you just a bit, but there are special people who do much more then change you, they make you. Without them in your life you would be less then who you are. I have been very lucky to have met and loved some amazing men and women. The kind of people who you can restart a conversation with, even after thirty years, and still be totally in tune with.

I have a couple of girl friends, and I mean this because we were friends as girls, who are now women with grown children and they are the same people I knew as a girl. Now I don’t mean these are women who have stagnated and remained little girls, far from it. They have lived life fully, suffered, felt joy, lost loved ones, raised kids, travelled, worked and played, but essentially they are still the same people. Better, wiser and more beautiful then they were as girls but their souls are the same.

What ever it is that makes the essence of a person, in these special people, is still so clear to me it seems untouched. Maybe we only show are true selves to a few people because it is only with a few people we feel truly safe. It is this authentic person we know and bond with. The connection I felt as a girl to these women, the love, the trust, the joy I feel in their company I still feel. I am blessed to know them.