Adult Friendships

Adult friendships, the good ones anyways, are absolute magic! You may not chat everyday, or even hangout every month (or 6 months!), but when you do, it is completely and utterly all the things! 

You laugh a LOT, at all volumes, and cry a little, mostly silently, and you also just chat and relate and listen and help and not help and just....ahhhh. Bliss. If you're really lucky you laugh so hard that you annoy the neighbouring tables, revist inside jokes and make all kinds of random sound effects that only make you laugh more. 

These friends...they are so special. They get you. They've been there through the hardest and bestest. They've been there when loved ones passed, chapters began and ended. Through parenting, and friendships and dating, and just so many things! There may have been slumps in the relationships, and super high highs too, but it's all a part of the magic.

Today I met a friend for lunch, who invited another friend I see infrequently. I felt so beyond blessed and so special to have these 2 show up for me. Show up for our friendship. We shared, we related, we laughed, we teared up, we laughed harder...I am so grateful. 

I look back at my life and can say without a doubt that my closest friendships either came in adulthood, or carried through to it. So many people come and go, and that's ok (more than ok), but some people are here for it all! What a freakin special thing!

Life is hard, so unbelieveably hard, but amidst all of the chaos there is so much to be grateful for. We may have extremely busy lives, that largely revolve around our kids, but these special friendships are sometimes just exactly what we need! 

I guess Ms. Joan was right-the world doesn't fall apart when we take some time out for ourselves. Infact, it might actually get a whole bunch better!

Love you so much, my people!