Friends

Ever since I have been married (1 year) I have found that it is so hard to find good girlfriends. Its kind of a strange feeling, and maybe you have felt the same way I do, maybe not, maybe you will one day. I loooove my friends. The ones I've gathered from middle school, high school, college and volunteering, but with time we have all moved apart. I am one of the only ones married and it has isolated me in some ways. WHY CANT ALL MY FRIENDS JUST BE MARRIED? I think this would solve a lot of my problems & if we all lived within a 10 mile radius of each other that would be great too. Is that too much to ask for?

In the meantime though I have started to pray to meet some good married girlfriends. At first I kinda felt lame for even praying for something so silly, but I continued to do so because it is important to me! Then something pretty spectacular happened. A few days later a friend from high school face-booked me saying that she and her husband had transferred colleges, and were now living in the same town as us! So excited!  It didn't stop there. I went to a church activity and a girl approached me. She walked up to me tapped me on the shoulder and said "I think we know each other" sure enough we did! She was good friends with one of my best friends and we had met briefly a few years back. She had just moved down the street from me with her husband! We immediately clicked. 

That night I was filled with so much gratitude. These little encounters had been exactly what I had been needing. I chatted with a friend that night about the importance of friendship. It never really dawned on me how much we really NEED good friends in our lives. Friends to go to target with or just to get out of the house and have some quality girl talk. It also makes me wonder how many women have felt the same way I have. I think its important to be a friend to others, step out of your comfort zone, you never know someone (like me) may really need it.


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