Friends

I started a facebook account, and I love it. I just got finished visiting with a dear friend from a long time ago. I am not the person who wants to keep in touch with all of my high school friends just because I miss high school--actually it is quite the opposite! The people that I am visiting with the most are the ones that I have known all of my life! I grew up in a very small town and many of us have known one another for the last 30 years. Well, that is not accurate, because I have not kept in contact with them since graduation! Anyway, I love that even though we may have all gone different directions in life, many of us are doing the same kinds of things. Many of the girls are raising families, cleaning house, and enjoying motherhood. Many of the guys are doing the same things that my sweet hubby does on a daily basis. I guess that I am feeling a little surprised, because I felt SO different from them. I felt like I was going to be the only stay-at-home-mom while they all went out and did amazing things, traveled the world, became rich and famous....but, I was wrong. We are more alike than I thought, and I am happy to know this. Not that I didn't look forward to MY GOALS of being what I am now...I just wondered if I would feel out of place at a class reunion because I was the only one with those goals! And, while I am writing this long, long, post. I also realized just how blessed I am! Many of my friends from my past have endured so many hardships...ones that I can't even imagine dealing with. I remember being young, and feeling so strong, so unbreakable. Our little community was so safe, and secure. It never occurred to me that some of the hardships that adults spoke of could or would ever happen to any of us, and yet, they have. I know I have been blessed with so many things, and tonight I have been blessed with the knowledge of those blessings. Life is wonderful.