My Fantastic Friends

Sometimes you have that friend who has the wisdom you might lack….

I’ve been very lucky with my friends over the decades. I mean every decade and I mean girlfriends. In primary school there was Helen, she had just the same sort of “weird” that I had. We fidgeted awkwardly on our chairs at school much to the teachers annoyance, and hated maths …we rode our “space hoppers” everywhere( other kids just rode bikes…) and made “families” of animals and insects out of felt, and we were inseparable. I was heartbroken when she moved away. I met her a few years later, she hadn’t changed… but I had. I was so grateful for her at the time, but it seemed that we had grown up at different rates. Suzanne and I had a rocky start to our friendship.. but again we just clicked, bringing out the crazy in each other, doing what we weren’t supposed to…playing truant, smoking and drinking spirits till we threw up, to name a few things… Due to the “magic” of Facebook I am “connected” to her still. We do live on opposite sides of the globe at this point …Do I know anything about her life now.. ? no, not really. Friendship and Facebook, hmm,is it controversial to say Facebook doesn’t really enhance real life? The friend from school I will still message occasionally after knowing her for 45 years …was another who just happened along with what I needed at the time. Her positivity was infectious and countered my then very pessimistic nature. We had a…