Inspiration - My Friend

I'll never have a friend like you

When I was little there was this girl.  She was three years older than me.  She was my everything - my idol, my role model and my best friend.  She came and she went away, and I was an uncritical child who found that being the most natural thing in the world.  When she was around we played every day, doing all kinds of crazy things.  One day we found a can of paint and we ran around outside painting stuff red, including our clothes.  When we found dead animals we buried them.  We made drawings and put up on the walls in the outhouse, we went swimming in the lake, we put up the tent and played in that, we went to the playground and lots of other fun things that kids do.

But time went by and my friend didn't come around much anymore.  We wrote letters to each other for a while, but eventually we just stopped.  Life took over.  My sweet friend may had left my home town, but she had not left my heart.  On the day of my graduation I almost ran straight into her. There she was, wearing blue and white, hairdo of the 80's and that smile...  And she had brought boyfriend, and - her 4-year old son!  He had blond hair and eyes full of tricks.  So she was back in my life!  For a while...  Letters were exchanged and we kept each other up to date.  But once again life took over.

I was not a fan of social media, I was in fact very anti until just a couple of years ago.  Something made me look for my friend on Facebook, and I found her!  She's back in my life and she's back for good!  However...

Life was tough on this girl from the very beginning.  But she was always a survivor, had lots of respect for other people and love for other people, especially for those who were younger than her.  She smiled a lot, she laughed a lot... In fact, I can't remember I ever saw her cry!  Therefore I must say:

My friend does not deserve to lose both her parents before she was 50.  She did not deserve to be left on the road with her motorcycle in a hit and run.  She did not deserve to fight constant pain in her body every day.  She did not deserve having to fight the insurance agency for her right to health retirement.  She did not deserve to live in a cottage where temperature dropped to 10 degrees in the winter and the wasps took over in the summer.  She did not deserve having to bury her firstborn son.  And she does not now deserve to be told how to handle her grief!  I will never understand why Life has been so hard on her!

Sweetie!  Keep it up!  You deserve to be happy!  You deserve your new home!  You deserve the love you're getting!  You have so many friends who love you and understand you.  Those who don't are not worthy of you!  There's no one like you...


Music:  "Seasons in the Sun" with Terry Jacks
             "Sunday" with David Bowie