My best friend and I went to a funeral yesterday. Between that situation and the four years it's been since we last saw each other, we really lived up the 36 hours we got to spend together. It was the usual beer and chilling out and making fun of each other. And it was everything I needed. As nice as it's been to see some old friends since I came back, given the choice of all my friends, I would almost always choose to spend the day with him. Because he gets me and I get him and it's comfortable and easy.
We keep growing up (sort of) and leading more and more disparate lives. And even though I know that he'll always know me, sometimes right before I see him I worry that I'm going to show up and our relationship won't be what it has always been. Yesterday, he told me something that made me realize that the dynamics of our friendship will always be the way they've always been.
Yesterday, my best friend told me which story in our long history he tells people who don't know me when he's explaining our friendship. I use the exact same story.
19 August 2010
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It's so hard to find a friend who really 'gets' you and knows you inside out.
I'm so lucky to have two such friends, and it's always exactly as you said. We won't see each other for months, or years, but when we meet up again, it's like no time has passed at all.
Great post!
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