Friends sing together
Friends do things together
Friends laugh together
Friends make graphs together
One might say that such lyrical complexity was told through the eyes of a 7 year old who was prompted to explain what they felt having a friend was all about.
"So Sally, what are some things friends do together?" "Oh, you mean like make graphs? Make graphs."
Maybe Sally is a bit ahead of her time. And maybe if she keeps making graphs, she'll have cats instead of friends. But FOTC knows what's up. Friends really are great, MY friends are great, and sometimes I think we're better when we're together. Taking a pause from the second half of my nail painting for a hot second. Let's share our feelings in 3...2..
I got together with friends from college this weekend, some of whom I hadn't seen in many, many months. It was SO. NEEDED (Nails aren't dry yet, but my keyboard looks so sparkly..mm whatever). There's a great sense of nervous excitement when you see people you haven't been around for so long, and you're not really going through the motions of catching up with them, you're just...being. But that's not what you're thinking of at the time. You're just really in the moment. And this is nothing new, you know this crowd well, except life during college had you so used to just being that only now there continues to be a LOT of big-kid, significant changes happening that contribute to this lived experience and it's up to you to stay afloat, changes like buying homes and marriage proposals and grad schools and job prospects and summer is over? Guhh. And all the while there's laughter and Snapchatting and aimless conversation and stuffing your faces with Pinterest recipes. Yes! My friends do all of this! And THEN some! Put THAT in a song and rhyme it! 'Cause I can't...so really, someone, just..try to..nope.
My crew of 20-something's; none of it needs to be glamourous, just needs to be.
I'm quite thankful for gatherings like this. We cannot lose sight of how effortless it is to simply be. To be in the company of good people, many of whom I didn't know before that night, is magnetizing, I crave it. Now more than ever.
It's a ridiculously late New Year's Resolution, but I'd love to see myself get better at just being, because, well, it's what we do.
