"What would you do if I sang out of tune?"

So this weekend I have had a great time surrounded by my closest friends here in Perth.  Yesterday was Australia Day (think July 4) so it's been fun, sun, cookouts, fireworks, movies, etc this weekend.  And to top it off... TOMORROW (monday) is a day off (WITH pay!) because Australia day fell on a weekend.  Gotta love it.

 

Wayne is in America with work/holiday so I've had a lot of time to do some thinking and reflecting over the past week and a half.  I have been spending a lot of time with friends here, and talking to friends back in the States (thanks to lovely modern technology!) and it has really made me think about Friendships.  If I look back and think on my friends from 10 years ago.  The ones that I was BFF's with, I can count a few who I keep in VAGUE contact with via face book, and a couple of life friends that I have been in touch with for >10 years.  But that's about it.  I have my friend, Brandi, who I still keep in touch with (and am just realising I owe her an email.. like, way over due!) and we can go weeks without talking and pick up like not a day has gone by.   Go forward to the past five years.  There are more friends in the last five years I have keep in close contact with.  But just like with seasons changing, friends seem to always change.  Is this for everyone?  Is this just me?  Is it more of a female thing since we tend to rely more on friendship/companionship than men do?  It saddens me that one of the people I considered one of my two "best" friends before moving to Australia and I are now nearly strangers.  It amazes me that the other person I considered one of my "best friends" and I are even closer than we were before... and we use to live in the SAME apartment complex... in the same building... AND, worked together, same shift, on the same hospital unit.  The reason for that is we both put in effort to keep in touch.  Life gets busy, but we never let life get too busy for each other.  And I think that's what it's all about.   

 

A few years ago, one of my dear friends from Australia, is now my fiance and the man I plan to spend the rest of my life with and share our life and home together and raise babies with.  A year ago, I was planning to go to America for my best friends wedding.. and we are now strangers.  This time last year, a Florida gal and her husband were heading to Australia to move and she is now my best friend in Perth.   It just amazes me how people come and go into your life.  People that you can't imagine your life without are one day not there.  People who you don't even know make their way into your life that you can't imagine your life before they were a part.  

 

It's a lot of random thoughts kind of thrown together tonight in this blog.  Guess when you stop drinking you start thinking of deep crap?? lol 

 

I will end with a picture of me and some of my closest friends.  This was taken last night in South Perth over looking the river after the fireworks.   I guess at the end of the day, people come and go into your life sometimes with warning sometimes with no warning, and sometimes with no explanation.  Instead of focusing on who aren't there in our lives, why don't we focus more on the ones who ARE there?   

Happy Australia Day 2013.

Oh, and the wedding is in 9 months from today.  Mark that one down people!! :)

 

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”