Last Friday afternoon I got to spend some time with women that I like. I truly enjoy the laughter and fun that creates itself whenever we get the opportunity to sit and chat. I was able to meet children I did not know and able to share my child with them as well. She was on amazingly good behavior, so it was a pleasant afternoon all the way around. I am fortunate in my little world to have several of these types of relationships, women who are kindred spirits or ones that I have grown up with, or those like today, who feel like family, even though no shared blood passes through our veins, only the past and love that has withstood time and distance.
Driving home from the Chick-Fil-a, I couldn't help but think of how wonderful it is to be a woman in this world. I know that it seems as if men have all the advantages, higher salaries for the most part, less domestic responsibility, etc, etc, etc, but I think we woman are really the lucky ones. We are born communicators, we have the ability to cultivate intimate friendships in a very short time and we are built for the compassion and care needed to nurture those friendships. I am not sure that men really get that opportunity, at least not in the same way we women get to experience it. It makes me sad for them, but so grateful for my place as a woman in this world.
No matter how many men come and go in our lives our women friends are always there. We are there for each other in happy times and sad times, we encourage and boost up and listen and give advice to each other. Every dark and dreary time and every happy, joyful moment in my life has been met by a female friend and made all the better for it. What would I do without them in my life? I don't ever want to find out.
So, thank you to my extended "family" for hanging out with me and mine last week, thanks to my girlfriends who keep me sane everyday through phone calls, computer feedback and lunch dates and thanks to my mom who has been the best girl friend I could ever have.
Living Happily in the Moment!
Bev
2 comments:
We had a wonderful time.!! None of us will ever look at
a frog the same way again as long as we live. You and "yours" are special to ALL of us and we're glad to have a bit part in your "real" life.
You are one terrific young woman!
Love,
White-haired LOL from the past
Love ya! And thank you for that wonderful communication thing that us girls have. As we have established boys do not know how to communicate, Thank you for being here for me my friend!!!!!!!!
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