Best Friends
Today is my best friend’s 60th birthday (Happy Birthday, Judith!). She’s probably still asleep as I write this. I want to celebrate her birth day, celebrate her, celebrate our friendship.
We’ve been friends for twenty years. We’ve seen each other through family tragedies, deaths and divorce. I was with her when she gave birth to her beautiful daughter, who is now a radiant sixteen-year-old. She drove me home from the hospital after my hip replacement surgery last February.
Since we live in different cities, we talk on the phone every couple of days. Once a week, we exchange healings that keep us growing, that help us transform our lives in the direction of our dreams.
When the skies darken around us, we remind each other of the still-invisible horizon.
When something wonderful happens in my life, she’s the one I call. We celebrate our accomplishments with delight. And laugh hilariously at each other’s jokes.
When one of us is overwhelmed or in despair, wondering why we’re doing what we’re doing, the other is there as Witness, as Keeper of the inner truth of our miraculous, magical selves.
When my wings falter, hers buoy me.
We’re both strong, independent, opinionated women, which means we don’t always agree with each other. But we do always love each other. And rely on the other to love us back, even when we’re not all that lovable.
We all need a best friend. And we each need to be a best friend too.
Being a best friend anchors me in love and commitment in a different way than being Mom to my sons, or sister to my sisters. Ours is a bond that’s freely chosen. And chosen anew each day.
How about you? Whom do you choose to love? How does your best friend live in your heart? And what kind of best friend are you?
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Happy Birthday to Judith!
And yes. I am so grateful for my best friend. I couldn’t begin to list the things we’ve been through together. I’m a different person because she’s in my life. Having this kind of person in my life, it makes me so happy to witness others who share a similar relationship.
Because really, everyone should have a best friend.
;-)
All the best!
deb
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Thank you, Deb, for your good wishes for Judith! :-) I’m so glad you have a best friend too.
Love, Hiro
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Hiro,
A great big “Happy Birthday” to your best friend Judith!
Thank you for this post. You have reminded me of the priceless value of friendship and how sometimes I take good friends for granted.
My best friend lives in Spokane, WA and so I don’t see her that often but ours is the kind of relationship where we can pick right up as if we had been visiting every day. Those kinds of friendships are rare and precious.
She celebrates my successes and is not afraid to call me on issues where I am clearly wrong,. So I know I can trust her because she is always coming from a place of honesty. In fact, you have inspired me to tell her just how much her friendship means to me!
Judy
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Hi Hiro and a belated happy birthday to your friend Judith.
One of my best friends is also a Judith (Judy). She and my other best friend Karen are like my soul sisters. Judy and I reconnected a few years back and Judy introduced me to Karen. We all became fast friends and have shared lots of laughs, tears, art and food.
I am sharing this post with them. And thank you for sharing it with us.
-Amy
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Thank you for this post, it has stirred in my heart my own very precious and beautiful connection with my friends who live very far from me. How they live in my heart, I don’t know. I just know their impressions and their love will be there forever. What a gift it is to have such special people in our lives!
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