Facebook

Thank you Facebook. I mean it. I have just re-connected with a college friend. She is not just "any" friend, but I'd say she is the person who taught me what it means to be friends. We were so close in college and for a while after graduation, that I couldn't have imagined that we would ever lose touch, but sadly, we did.

All those years we didn't communicate, I ached with the loss. You do, however, move on and that is what we both did. We had families and careers and joy and pain; but we weren't able to share those with each other. I don't think that the loss was without value; I learned some things from it. I just wish it hadn't happened.

I learned that you don't take friendship for granted. I learned that good relationships don't "just happen." You have to work on them. I learned that girlfriends are like oxygen...you have to have them!

What happens next? I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that I'm grateful to Facebook for giving us another chance. I'm going to work on this one!