About True Friends
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Deb in The Girl
Though Facebook hasn’t brought much to my life beyond Scrabble and a reminder of how petty junior high was, it has been the vehicle for connecting with a couple of folks from my past that has been very positive. Like Miss J, who met me for lunch today. This is the second time we’ve gotten together since reconnecting and the thing is, she is just one of those people that is genuine.
I’ve known Miss J since the 6th grade, which would have made us eleven. She spent the night at my house, was one of the few friends to attend my wedding shower; but I moved on to my married life and she went away to college. The rekindling of this friendship after twenty-two years is really sweet. As you cannot help but do, we discussed some of the folks we went to high school with, and those interactions we had in present day as well as those we had in the past. Some folks, you see, are unable to live in the present and still cling to the lives of their past. Some folks are interested in growing and bettering themselves; others are more self-centered and shallow.
She told me today that our freshman year, the purity and sweetness of my voice when I audtioned for the part of Daisy Mae our freshman year moved her; as an artist, she saw beauty there. It meant so much for her bring forth a brief moment of my past, and let me know that it was something that she still remembered so many years later. She also confided in me about an action of her past and I was now one of only six people that knew; she told me because she just knew that she could trust me to know and not judge. A true friend, you see, is someone that you can talk to daily, and still have soemthing to say; or someone that you can talk to after two months and have a milion things to catch up on; or someone you haven’t seen in twenty years, and it feels like you had just seen them the day before.
I am so thankful.