Lifelong Friends

On a recent trip to Seattle, I got the chance to get together with “the girls.” These aren’t just any girls – these are lifelong friends. Girls that I grew up with, went to their weddings and watched their children grow up and still get together with a couple times a year to catch up. As we get a little older, it seems more meaningful to have friends that you have such a long history with.

It’s interesting how the period of time when you’re launching your career, getting married and/or raising little ones, that your friendships don’t always get as much attention. Often it’s simply because you’re so busy, or because your lives have taken different directions. (Or, in my case, I also moved away from my hometown)

We had a few years where keeping in touch didn’t seem to make it to the top of the priority list, or we just somehow just let it slip away. However, in the last 10 years we’ve made a renewed effort to stay more connected. Have you ever noticed that with some friends – even if a year went by without talking - the connection is still there, it is still strong and you pick up right where you left off? And the memories that we have to talk about – they seem endless. What one of us forgets, someone else (Sue!) can describe in detail.

At our recent gathering at the Copper Gate in Ballard, we ate some traditional Norwegian foods and chatted the night away. My favorite topic was sharing the experience of our first periods to all our current menopause symptoms. And it’s also amazing that we were friends before the first event and will be long after the second.

Keep in touch.  Debbie

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