This weekend I spent time with an old friend that I had worked with while I struggled to put myself through college. We were travel agents and also traveled together. Being with her again after 30 some years in between reminded me that keeping in touch with friends who knew you when you were young is really, really important. Especially as you get really, really old. So I offer my top ten reasons for keeping friends close to your heart.
1. Friends help piece together past experiences and memories and bring them to the present.
2. Friends remember who you were before the world tried to rearrange you.
3. Friends can cry and laugh with you about those friends long gone.
4. Friends understand how you arrived at the present moment and what you went through to get here.
5. Friends reaffirm the belief that people really do not change that much over time.
6. Friends make you laugh at yourself and all your ridiculousness.
7. Friends eat your meals and say they taste wonderful even when it's not really true.
8. Friends will take car rides to any where with you.
9. Friends tell you how good you look even when it's not really true but in their eyes it is.
10. Friends stick with you through all the messiness of life and relationships and bless you with their presence in your life.
My friends have become my "sisterhood of the traveling pajamas" because no matter how far apart we live we will travel with pj's in hand to be together!
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