Wednesday, February 29, 2012

BEST FRIENDS ARE WONDERFUL

There is nothing like a best friend.  While I have a lot of good/casual friends, I have several best friends.  What qualifies someone to be my best friend?  It is someone that I can tell most of my secrets to and not worry about being judged; can call on a whim without worrying that I am being bothersome; is there for me through thick and thin.

I have been lucky enough to have several best friends in my lifetime.  One of them lived in Florida and has passed away.  When she was on her dying bed, I went to see her.  Her last words to me was, "I wish I had met you ten years sooner."  We had a ton of fun together.  I always remember her when I order a Reuben sandwich.  When I lived in Florida, where I met her, we would play golf almost every day and end up at the club house ordering Reuben sandwiches and laughing about stupid stuff.

I have a best friend now that I met in college when I was studying for a degree in nursing.  My husband told me once, "I always know when you are talking to Mary."  I asked him how did he know that fact.  He replied, "Because you laugh a lot."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin -

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