My gorgeous friend Hattie (My Glittering Stars) has inspired me to pick up this blog again. I no longer have a husband. But I do have a pack of amazing, fabulous, wonderful, inspiring, beautiful female friends. They are as bright and precious as Hattie's stars.
These are both friends I had when I left the States to marry the guy, and women that didn't know me from Eve when I got here in 2005. They are white, black, Latina, Asian (both the American and the British definition), tall, short, thin, rubenesque, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, agnostic or atheist. But they are the ones that basically scraped me off the floor when he left, put their arms around me, made me feel loved and wanted, and cheered for me to Get up! Get back on your feet! Show 'em! like I was a boxer reeling on the ropes.
Knowing what I know now, that's a tradeoff I would make over and over again. Men are like buses - you miss one, there's another coming in 20 minutes. But a girl's girlfriends are irre-fucking-placable.
I admit having treated a few badly over the years. Maybe we all have. If it were possible for me reach back to the times I was selfish or forgetful and make it up to them somehow, I would. All I can hope is that I've become a better friend over the years, and have remembered to show all these phenomenal chicks how grateful I am to have them in my life.
3 comments:
You have amazing girlfriends, Syd, because you're an amazing woman who is also an amazing friend. Love and miss you lots! xo - Rach
You are an amazing woman Syd. And please keep writing. It suits you and I like hearing your voice again.
I am so proud to be able to call myself your friend. You continue to amaze me with each passing month. Your warmth and honesty never fail to make me smile. I think it's only really since summer 2008 that I really started to consider us friends and yet I can't seem to remember my life without you. You are one of those wonderful people who have only been a part of my life for a short while, but the impact has been too great to measure. I know in you I have a soulmate. A grimy, dirty, loud, beautiful, hilarious soulmate. The world is a brighter place with you in it. Fact. Here's to a lifetime of friendship x
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