Girlfriends

Oh my gosh, what a night. I just spent 3+ hours with a friend who i went to St. Marys academy with my freshman year and then when it closed about 15 of us went to ursuline academy. I had not seen her since 1993 and was a little apprehensive about going and what we would talk about. It was so much fun! We reminisced about what we have been doing the last 15 years and so much about high school and the people that were so important then that mean next to nothing to our lives now. It really sent me into a panic just thinking about it. My life is like these little sections that are so different and the people in each section are totally different and most of them I do not have any relationship with. It really bothers me because at those different sections of my life those people meant everything to me and now I don't know where they are or what they are doing. How do you drift away so quickly and never seem to return. I can't help but to think "who is in my life now that is important that won't be here in 5 years?" I know when we wrote BFF in the eighth grade to each other we were not texting but rather making picture frames or photo albums with the sticky clear paper.
I am so glad to have a group of friends from early grade school. I just learned today my maid of honor Amy is moving within 4 miles of my house and am so excited. I was telling my friend tonight about my group of girlfriends and she said how jealous she was of me. She not only is an only child but has not maintained any more than one of her childhood friendships. How lucky am I. I need to keep telling myself that and not fretting over all the relationships I have failed to maintain but rather focusing on those I have. I am thrilled to have reconnected with my high school friend alison and my dear college friend Sarah. I am confident those will stand the test of time. I am grateful to facebook for giving me back some of my youth in recounting people and stories that I have not heard in many years. I was never big on numbers and strongly focused on quality, not quantity of friends that I have. When I picked my wedding party I made sure that I would still be just as close 10 years from then with those people as I was on my wedding day and I was thrilled last year to say it was true. How lucky I am. I make new friends all the time with Emily's school parents and I know those are so important as we will be together for 8 years of sleepovers and soccer. However I am so grateful for my everlasting group of girlfriends that have stood the test of time. Okay, it is time to say goodnight!