just a note

My heart is full and my head is spinning.  I have always loved sending my friends 'just because'  and notes I continue to do it to this day.  Sometimes it's a quick text or a post on their Facebook wall and other times, I pull out the pen and paper and slap on a stamp.  The other day, I was playing around on a website that has some nicer e-cards and I sent a couple off to some friends.  It was one of those things where you feel like you just need to say something and once you do, it's out there and you feel the weight lifted. Plus, knowing they would have a surprise when they checked their e-mail was enough to make me giddy.  You know how they say it's better to give than to receive?  It is.  I get high off making others smile and sometimes, it means I forget that maybe I do the same for the ones on the receiving end. I got a little reminder not long after the first card was sent.

In response to the card, my one friend sent me the sweetest note back.  She touched on some of the memories we shared....funny ones, touching ones and ones that just said that there is no way our friendship will ever end.  I literally sat there reading and re-reading the note with my heart aching and tears welling up in my eyes smack in the middle of the day.  And to think, we were somewhat enemies for the first year or two that we knew each other.  How do you go from that to being in each others lives forever?  I suppose it doesn't matter, now does it?

Card number two....well, I should have played the lottery after that one because once again, another wonderful response. I used to think that it was odd that when I was thinking of someone close to me, they would somehow show up.....a phone call, a dream, a note.  I now believe that it just means that it is someone you have a special bond with.  I have this with both of these people and I do the happy dance every time it happens. The second responder mentioned that we need to get together in the upcoming year and as I read it, I was all, "I was JUST thinking that!!"  Looks like a road trip coming up to see both lovelies.

I was practically walking on air when I ran into a friend that I haven't seen in a while and it turns out that they were not in the same state of mind as me.  This friend has some not-so-fun stuff going on in their life and all I wanted to do was take every bit of good energy I had from the day and hand it over.  I wanted to fix it all for them even though I knew it wasn't possible.  All I can do it be there when they need me and sometimes waiting for that call is the most difficult part of friendship.

I don't know where else I want to go with this post.  In my head I had so much to say but it just seems like run-on sentences when I type so I will end here, appreciating every friend I have and every moment I get to share with them.  I wish you all friendships like the ones I have.