Best Friends Forever….

Have you ever found an old friend after years of separation and discovered that you still had a connection so strong that it had never broken? That you still share the same thoughts and have the same ideals, that you still laugh at the same things, cry over the same things, enjoy the same things, even though very different from days of yore? That even though you had grown up apart, you have somehow grown together? Today I have found that friend.

These re-connections would have been nearly impossible or at most wildly coincidental in the years before the instant connectivity of computers, social networking sites and search engines like Google.

There is nothing like having shared experiences from childhood. These cannot be recreated ever again – my childhood is long over and I can never build that same type of relationship with anyone else. I will never get into situations that silly, do some of those moronic things that only children do and survive without a thought. I believe that these experiences and the shared memories of them forge bonds that cannot be duplicated ever again.

If one is lucky enough to have had such a very best friend as a child, and has been even luckier still to find them again, that person really is a BFF – Best Friend Forever. This is the friend who is so low maintenance that over 20 years of no contact doesn’t wipe you from their memory or them from yours.

I have been so lucky to have had a friend like that in the first place. The kind of friend who had my back even when they were mad at me. The kind of friend that bled when I was cut . Finding this friend again is a gift I’m not ever likely to take for granted.

Someone I can go walk on the train tracks with, go hitchhiking with, break rules with and tell my deepest secrets to. A friend I can share all my sorrows and joys with. And who will share those things back with me. Together we can be children again, only this time as adults. And we can do all these things from our armchairs, laptops on our laps, from a distance of almost 3000 miles away.

Ain’t it grand?

A little help here….I think my tongue is stuck to the frozen flagpole……!