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A Post About Nothing But Friendship

By Cathy Chester on May 16, 2013

Call me crazy, but this post is for me. Right now, I need to write for the sake of writing, to find words, sentences and paragraphs that will lift my spirit and soothe my soul.

I hope it will lift your spirits, too.

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Writing is cathartic for many; I am no exception.

This week I wrote about ways to cope with stress, including being silly with friends and spending time with loved ones.

Life is getting in the way of taking my own advice.

BFFMy three closest friends live far away.  We've known each other since grade school. The last time we were all together was thirteen years ago.  Two are identical twins.  The four of us drove to New England to spend a long night of partying to celebrate their fortieth birthday.  It was pure Nirvana.

My other friend lives close by, but as a filmmaker she's constantly travelling the world.  We are as close as sisters.  So I know when I don't hear from her for awhile, she's firmly ensconced on a movie set.

I took two enjoyable philosophy courses in college. Boston College is a Jesuit school, and this Jewish girl learned a lot from the taskmasters who were my professors.  I am deeply indebted to them.Besties

I remember learning about Plato's Perfect Plane, interpreting his theory to mean we are all meant to find an ideal world to live in.  My ideal world would be living near my best friends who lend me comfort, understanding and unconditional love.  As I've written before, like Lucy and Ethel or Mary and Rhoda, they are my BFF, my besties, my BFFL.  They are my comrades in arms as we journey through midlife together.

I have one more new bestie who is my MS bestie, yet she's so much more.  We met through our shared job as Peer Advocates for Teva.  She calls me her Yankee and I tell her she's my midwestern mama.  We laugh, cry and empower each other.  She's my new BFFL.BFFL

We are each blessed if we have one best friend for life.  I've been blessed four times.

I've also made new, good friends since turning 50, ones I hold dear in my heart.  They hold my hand as I learn this new thing called blogging.  I hope they hold me close to their hearts as well.  They are each intelligent, compassionate and extraordinary women.  I am blessed once again.

There, I finished my post.  I was right.  It WAS cathartic.  I've felt my friends surrounding me with outstretched arms, loving souls and understanding hearts.  To each of you, I say thank you.

 

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Comments

  1. Oh yes, you understand the wonderful life we all can have if we are willing to put ourselves out there and make friends. I have not been to yoga for awhile as my knee is hurting so I ask Eva each week if you have participated. I miss yoga, and not seeing you.
    Paulette

  2. Cathy, I hold you so close to my heart and wish we actually lived closer so we could talk in person instead of online. You are such a special person, and all of us are lucky to have you as our friend. xoxo

  3. Beautiful, Cathy! My BFF is all the way in California, but I'm lucky to have a lot of very close wonderful women, although they're scattered all over the place. But it IS nice to be able to have your BFF almost next door, isn't it? PS. You have a very special way about you, which is why you and I became "instantaneous" friends. That doesn't happen too often...

  4. Cathy, I can tell you're a lot like me...I cherish my friendships so much, and have friends from grade school, high school, college, grad school, sleep-away camp, past jobs, and so on. During these past weeks, I too have felt so thankful to have the support, loyalty and love of my friends, both new and old. I have very close friends that live far away too, and although it's hard, when we do talk or see each other, it's like nothing has changed. Oh and yes, this post did lift my spirits - thank you!

  5. Aww...I feel the love in this post. You're so sweet and wonderful. I'm so glad you've had four wonderful BFFL blessings. That's cuz you're amazing. 🙂

  6. I am so glad to have you as an online friend and I'm even happier that I had the chance to meet you - briefly! - last month. Friends are truly the cherry on top of the sundae of life - without them, everything would be incomplete.

  7. Writing, especially as beautifully as you do, IS cathartic. I so enjoyed this post. Your besties are lucky, indeed.

    I was just mentioning you today --- I told someone that I had made a number of friends through blogging --- some, I said, I've even met, and one is someone who I feel a real kinship with and affection for (guess who that person is?) --- I'm so happy to have met you, I always enjoy getting together with you --- you are such an incredibly positive person! Hang in there! I'll see you in a couple of weeks --- I'm sur we'll have more than a few laughs!

    Regarding "The Kennedy Center Honors" --- after hearing Steven Tyler sing "Golden Slumbers", I think it should be 'verboten' for anyone to ever cover it again --- it was THAT perfect!

  8. Anyone who is lucky enough to be your friend is enriched by your positive attitude, friendliness and compassion. I felt a spark of recognition the very first time we met, and the spark has grown into a steady flame. I treasure our friendship and always love reading your beautiful writing. You express your emotions so well. <3

  9. Lovely blog you got here, I was invited to it by a friend of mine who I'm sure you already know of. Her name is Cyndy Calhoun, and she is a cool lady at that for sharing your blog with us on Facebook.

    I love you truest sincere message here about friendship, I also enjoyed the over all theme of your Youtube video and I would like to say that it is very well expressed by both you ladies who filmed it there.

    I love to pay it forward for folks myself, and for you I will be sharing this blog everywhere I can. I curate content socially and across many online social platforms. It would be my pleasure to do so for you.

    I will also be subscribing to your youtube channel and will share many of your videos as well as curate them for ya as well. I love your energy of positivity you are radiating here, keep up the awesome job. Cool stuff!

    Mike Pugh aka 'CloudExplorer' on Hubpages

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