Best Friends

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I have lots of moments I know that will live on forever, as everyone does. However, I remember this one time my best friend at that point in my life had a birthday party. We were so young, yet grown up enough to want to watch a scary movie. There were probably about 7 or 8 of us cuddled up under her uniquely awesome bed her dad made for her, screaming, crying, hiding, laughing and just being young girls. We went to the bathroom in pairs because her house had a bathroom mirror that look like the one in the movie.

Well that movie was Candy man! I recently watched it again with my nephew who is 13, and when I saw his eyes light up and close tightly I could only recall how I felt the first time I saw it. I told him he didn’t have to finish watching, nearly for my own safety for fear of the candy man. It’s funny how watching a scary movie could unmask an old ‘image’ of life.

I get emotional some days thinking about how rich with love my life growing up was. I often wonder why best friends grow apart; as I ponder that thought I know I have no one but myself to blame. Always to caught up in boys and cheer practices. I let life pass by me and as I grow and miss my friends and appreciate their characters. People aren’t as kind as they use to be and great girl friends are hard to come by.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish, and if that be so, why not now? I since then decided to become brave and face the beautiful people I’ve missed dearly. 

We may not be best friends anymore and we may not have, as much in common as we did then, but that doesn’t mean we cant still be friends.