I will be meeting my besties tonight – my friendship with some of these girls goes back many years. I have known some of them since we were 4 years old and then spent the next 12 years together until we left secondary school for sixth form (high school) when we were 16. We used to attend an all-girls convent school run by nuns and a cast of female teachers. The only 2 male teachers at our school were both well over 60 years old. We left school with a rather distorted vision of the world. Few of us were street-wise and we had to learn the hard way that not everyone had led the same protected life that we had.
We will be meeting at a pub-cum-wine-bar called Four Seasons which was very popular back in the ‘90s and was the stomping ground of many of us at the time. Owner Sammy has already been requested to play hits from the 80s and 90s. I envisage lots of laughter and reminiscing about the ‘old times’.
After family, friends can be amongst the most precious people in our lives. True friends share our joys and comfort us in our sorrows; they are there when we need advice; they are their own person and also an extension of ourselves; they are the breeze in our sail and the wind beneath our wings. True friends are the ones that know our secrets; the ones that share our crazy moments and the ones that help us to, not just fly, but soar.
Friends are not just about the here and now but about our yesterdays and our tomorrows.
Wishing you all lots of true friends and wonderful memories. Happy weekend.
Loree, I hope you have a wonderful time with your best girlfriends, this evening. And I like that last quote a lot.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful weekend to you!
Have a great time Loree.
ReplyDeleteFriends are everything.
Ha ha, great post, I love the picture of the nuns! Have fun with your besties. :)
ReplyDeleteFriendship ~ never to be taken for granted. I'm sure you had a lovely time. So much fun ~ xox Alexandra
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a lovely time - I have always appreciated the truth in that C.S. Lewis quote. Thanks, also, for your consistently encouraging and supportive comments on my blog. Your kind spirit shines through them.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful post! I hope your time spent with your friends is wonderfully special. Making friends in Houston has been slow going. I do have one girlfriend who just makes me laugh and laugh. We try to get together for several hours a month and I feel so refreshed afterwards.
ReplyDeleteI do hope you had a good time! It is always good to catch up with friends.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a great time! Love that bottom quote! Cracked up!
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