love {12}

I love friendship. I don’t feel like I really had friends until I was in college and even than, they were my roommates so I felt like they had to be nice to me. I don’t really feel like I have had any friends since I was like 5 like a lot of people do, except for my cousin, you know who you are and we had a rocky patch there for a while. But I have stayed friends with my roommates. Katrina, my cousin, went to college with me and we have stayed friends and now our kids are penpals. Here in this neighborhood, I feel so blessed to have so many good friends. My sisters, my sister-in-laws, and my mom and a bunch of my cousins are my friends.

It is truly lovely to have friends that really care about you. People that know you aren’t perfect. People who have had to deal with a lifetime of my uncontrollable farting. People who love me anyway.

A new thing for me, I am sure this isn’t that new I just started to notice, is people being incredibly charitable. During the swine flu panic, a friend gave up her shot for me and called me to let me know that it was waiting for me. I was pregnant and had tried several times, unsuccessfully to get it. I was panicking trying to get it. Her doing this for me, changed me and my opinion of her. Other friends have rescued me from my kids, or rather rescued my kids from me. Or taken my on business trips I didn’t really need to go on. Or just checked up on and been available by text or email late into the night. And been willing to bring dinner when they had just had c-sections themselves (I told this friend to stop threatening to bring dinner).

I recently made friends with a little 83-year old lady in my neighborhood. She is tiny and sweet. She has back problems, it hurts her to do most anything. I cannot believe how busy she is and how much service she gets done. I wish I could think of something to do with or for her all the time. I love going to talk to her, but don’t know how to just invite myself over. Maybe I should start inviting her to my crazy and dirty house. But Gentry loves her dog and we want him to come too.

Friendship makes my life better and makes me a better person.


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