It's Just a People Thing

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

How many can actually say they really have “forever friends”?  These are the friends you’ve known most of your life!  A “forever friend’ is really more than a friend you’ve known just forever.  They know more secrets about you than ANYONE on the face of this earth …. anyone. Well, these are my “forever friends” as we’ve known each other since we were 12.  We've gotten together numerous times as the years have moved along even though we’ve lived a couple thousand miles apart at times.  Thank goodness for the postman, email and text.

Forever Friends -- Starla, Shaleen and Me

This last weekend was another high school get together.  Just like we did at the last one, the one before that and so on, we made it a girl’s night out.  Now it’s not that it’s a special year for our class.  It’s not.  However, over the last few years we’ve lost some classmates.  Thus, we tend to have these little get togethers more often than most.  It’s sad that only about 20% of the class really attend.  It’d be fun to see more but it doesn’t happen.  I’m not sure why. 

It’s really fun to connect with people especially with those who we have a common interest with.  We all have some work buddies that we left behind in the working world.  Then we also have a  few RVing friends and even though they don’t go back years and years, the connection is important.  Some we really connect with and others we get to enjoy just for the moment. The special ones are a little harder to find but the ones who share a little of their lives also leave their mark.  The problem with the RVing community is that everyone is always on the move.  We form bonds with some but the strong bonds are just a little harder to form because first of all you need to find those you connect with.  Then, you never stick around long enough to cement that bond.  Besides everyone is so different as their worlds were different.  These high school get togethers bring people together who actually lived in the same world.  It's an interesting ride.

Setting up the outside breakfast room.

 

Actually, there were 5 of us way back when …. but we never had the situation where anyone was a 3rd wheel or a 5th wheel.  We were really in tune with each other's feelings.  One of our friends was killed in a car wreck a few years ago .... the other one?  Well, that's another story.

Quite a few of our classmates are no longer with us.  Starla was one of the lucky ones.  She was diagnosed with cancer about 10 years ago.  The three of us took a trip together between her chemo treatments.  We didn’t know if it’d be our last fling as a threesome or not.  But, here she is 10 years later and cancer free.

Texting

Sometimes it’s hard to go back to where your life was.  Sometimes going back is more comfortable than going forward. Sometimes it makes you question what you’re doing and see what you’ve been missing.   I love being around family.  I love being around special friends.  Why do girls need girlfriends more than guys need guyfriends?

 

Wouldn’t it be nice to find a  new special friend who would go forward in our life? It would be fun to look into that crystal ball and see what this winter holds.   If I knew this new special friend would cross our path this winter, it might make our tracks south a little more exciting.   As fall is drawing closer,  I’m not so sure I’m as excited this year in heading south ...  will it be our last?  Oh, I'm definitely excited about finding nice weather but that's hardly a lot to get excited over anymore because we always want nice weather.  Our wheels seem to be dragging a little more as the attachments here keep pulling at us.  It's not that we don't like going. We do.  It's just a people thing.

Okay, okay so this blog is out of sequence.....  did you notice?  It may have been an accident ... or it may not have been.  It's made me think about the importance of some things.