Celebrating Friendship (25 Years)

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We became friends our Senior Year of High-School, I was new to the school, we had just moved to be closer to my Nonna, and so I could graduate from the same Highschool my Mom and Dad did, it was a welcomed moved, our situation was better. But still I was the new girl, I knew a few people thankfully, but different schedules didn’t always lead to being able to hang out. We had child development and economics together, and a project for child development led to us getting to know one another better. I became self conscious about the way I walked from bullying in school when I wad younger, but none of that matter what mattered was friendship, it was because of her that I came to Faith, I had been Mormon before this, but things that I endured in that led me to wanting something different, (this isn’t an attack on Mormons in general, I have friends who are Mormon, as well as family). We became fast friends, because none of that mattered to her, and she would become one of the few to know things that happened in my childhood that I choose not to talk about, because that was the past, and honestly I don’t care to relive the past. She has always been one of the most selfless people I know, we had a trip with a group of High school seniors to Great America, put on by a Christian group, despite being pretty sick, she wasn’t contagious though, and this was a quarter of a century before Covid. A couple of years after High-School we lost a friend to suicide, he was extremely talented but he was broken, it was a hard time, but she wrote, and sent me an encouraging book to make sure I was okay. By then she was a young Mother of a beautiful daughter, and had a lot on her plate, but that never stopped her, after graduation my family moved, and I decided to stay behind to help my Nonna, and she’d pick me up for Church on Sundays, at the time I was on powerful muscle relaxants, that in the years since I’ve weaned myself off of, because I didn’t like the way they made me feel. That was just her though and on more than one occasion she’d simply come by to see if we needed anything. Life has moved us in different directions, shes an amazing Mom of beautiful daughters, a talented singer and artist, amongst other things, but when it matters we reach out. I went to her Dad’s funeral and memorial service when she lost him to Cancer, he was a truly amazing man, and years before that she had come to check on me after loosing my Nonna. Twenty five years of friendship (as of September) is definitely something to be celebrated, and treasured especially in this day and age.