Friends

One of my best friends from Gardner came with her husband to spend the weekend with us. It was great to get a chance to hang out and just talk with Jenna while the boys were off doing the coon hunting thing.

We talked about lots of things like my teaching, her Mary Kay, how her son is doing, how the families back in Gardner were doing, and catching up on Gardner gossip. Then we started thinking back to high school. We thought about the people we were then and the people we are now. We’ve grown up a lot!

The part that tugs on my heart was when we talked about how we perceived each other in high school. I saw Jenna as someone who was so cool and outgoing and I wanted to be around her because I wanted other people to think I was cool like her since we were friends. She saw herself as really reserved and kind of shy.

I saw myself as someone who wasn’t in the “inner circle” of cool people but right on the edge of being popular. Jenna saw me as someone who was really outgoing and always had a lot of friends.

This was the first time we had talked about the kind of people we were in high school with each other. It was easy to see that there was a reason we were such good friends. We complimented each other and relied on each other without even knowing it.

Even though my high school friends and I all went our separate directions after high school, it still amazes me how we pick right up where we left off whenever we get together. I used to think that to qualify as a good friend you needed to talk on the phone at least once a week and see each other all the time. What I love about my friends is that when we get together it feels like we just saw each other last week. Even though I don’t talk to my friends every week and get together every weekend, I know that they’re there for me and I’m there for them.

Always.

Miss you girls!