From My Heart To You
Get Yourself Some Girlfriends
Young and newly married, I relaxed under a pecan tree on a hot
Texas summer day, drinking ice tea and getting to know my new
sister-in-law. Not much older than I, but already the mother
of three, she seemed to me experienced and wise. "Get yourself
some girlfriends" she advised, clinking the ice cubes in her
glass. "You are going to need girlfriends". Go places with
them and do things with them." What a funny piece of advice,
I thought. Hadn't I just gotten married? Hadn't I just joined
the couple-world? I was a married woman, for goodness sake,
not a young girl who needed girlfriends. But I listened to
this new sister-in-law. I got myself some girlfriends.
As the years tumbled by, one after another, gradually I came to
understand that Estelle knew what she was talking about I
remembered that she had said the word "girlfriends" with emphasis.
As I went along, I discovered the suble difference between friends
and girlfriends. You go to work with friends, go to dinner with
friends, go to church with friends, belong to clubs with friends.
You send friends greeting cards. You need friends in you life;
all girlfriends were once only friends. But a girlfriend is
different. I offer this praise of my girlfriends.
Here is what I know about girlfriends:
Girlfriends don't compete
Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are sick
Girlfriends keep your children, and keep yur secrets
Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take it
sometimes you don't
Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're
always honest
Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your
choices
Girlfriends might send you a birthday card, but they might not.
It doesn't matter in the least
Girlfriends laugh with you and you don't need canned jokes to
start the laughter
Girlfriends don't talk about you behind your back
Girlfriends pull you out of jams
Girlfriends don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted
the other last
Girlfriends will give a party for your son or daughter when they
get married or have a baby, in whichever order that comes
Girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when
the hard times come
Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a husband
Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart
Girlfriends listen when your parent's minds and bodies fail
My girlfriends bless my life. Once we were young, with no
idea of the incredible joys or the incredible sorrows that
lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other.
I want to tell younger women to take this advice. Get yourself
some girlfriends. You are going to need them.
~ Author Unknown ~
Midi ~ Beautiful Woman ~
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