Catch-Up Frenzy
Something, can’t really say what, has inspired me lately to go into a bit of a catch-up frenzy. I’m really enjoying myself! Recently I have gone on a girl’s weekend away down south (wineries, gourmet food - it’s a gutso’s heaven down there) with my oldest friends. So fun! So much so, that we were all frantically emailing each other Monday morning saying what a good time we had and we really need to do it more often… and we meant it! It was the most refreshing and honest two nights I have ever spent with these girls and I LOVED it. I had forgotten what great friends I have. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in your life, your job, your partner, and eventually your children that it’s easy to lose touch with people, even if you see them on a sort-of regular basis. It seems like half the time you meet up but come away knowning nothing new or different about them. It was awesome to come away feeling like you have reconnected and really know these people you have called your friends for so, so many years (15 years, some of them!). It was also massively hilarious to reminisce about high school and early clubbing days and what not… we really did have some adventures, and now we’re all so grown-up and boring there is simply no way we will ever experience that many things, and know anyone in our lives again the way we know each other.
Because there was so much fun and frivolity to be had with that group of friends, I think it pushed me to get in contact with other friends of mine. I have a habit of finding an older woman at each of my jobs to be my ‘mother-figure’, my mentor if you will. Because of my recent catch-up frenzy, I’ve felt the compulsion to catch-up with my two confidantes from my previous jobs - I hadn’t seen them in so long… plus I knew they’d always be up for some news from me anyway. I’ve enjoyed it so much, loved getting things off my chest, loved listening to how they and their families are going, it’s just been brilliant. Why did I leave it so long to get in touch and reconnect?
Bit like this blog really…
alyndabear said,
January 23, 2008 at 5:16 am
I wish I had more people I could do that with - with the exception of about three girls, I’ve been lacking in the really strong girly friend department for years. I miss it.
brunette said,
January 23, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I’m usually a bit the same - don’t really have a ‘best’ friend, just a group of girlfriends who I have been friends with since I was in my late-primary school, early-high school days. It’s times like this weekend that I really get a wake-up call about how lucky we are to have each other and how special they are to me!