Post by Jen @ Life on the SONny Side
You know what I love? Other women. Now that every heterosexual man in a fifty mile radius just stopped in his tracks to listen a little harder, let me clarify…I love other women in a way that isn’t remotely sexual, but also in a way that makes them some of the very greatest loves of my life. Gentlemen, it’s cool to go about your business now. Sorry to have gotten any of your hopes up. This just isn’t that sort of piece.
This piece is, in fact, a love letter of sorts. It’s a thank you note. It’s an homage to the women that I simply couldn’t and wouldn’t want to live without.
Dear important girlfriends, best friends, sisters, mothers, and miscellaneous amazing females in my life:
Thank you. Thank you for the smiles, the snark, the Kleenex, the compliments (true or untrue,) the support, the secrets, the laughter, the stories that make me feel so very less alone. Thank you for reading my work and for being some of my biggest fans. Thank you for letting me vent, and rant, and sound totally nutso in front of you without judgment. Thank you for asking me to go out with you again and again, even though I never go anymore. Thank you for loving me even when I’m an absentee friend. Thank you for untagging me or deleting me in unflattering photos. Thank you for watching my kid…and for even just offering to watch him after all of the crazy stories that I’ve told you. Thank you for inspiring me with your bravery, your faith, and commitment. Thank you for believing me and for rooting me on when I tell you that I really am going to get in shape ‘this time’. Thank you for sending me thoughtful emails, cards and text messages when I need them the very most. Thank you for listening, and commiserating, and empathizing.
Each of you looks totally different from the next, but you’re all completely gorgeous. You know some crazy things about me and love me anyway. I know some even crazier things about you, and I love you even more. I have known some of you so long that I have to believe that the universe had a brilliant hand in our coming together and our staying together. We’ve hugged and held each other through love, loss, rejection, triumph, and some utterly embarrassing nonsense. You’re always my favorite person in the room. You’re always a reason to be in a better mood. Our exchanges are a bright spot in any given day. Our time apart is always longer than it should be. You have a beautiful heart. You are all funnier and smarter than most people will ever even know. You’re the sort of friend that every woman deserves, but few are lucky enough to actually have. And somehow I’ve managed to collect an arsenal of you. That is, quite simply, amazing.
I will never fully be able to tell you exactly how truly lucky I feel…how blessed I am…how many incredible ways that I’ve been touched and changed by our friendship and love. I am who I am because of the women in my life. The strong, funny, uncompromising women who always have my back…even when I don’t ask for it. The women who are probably just as much my soulmate as the man I call my husband.
Ladies, you are my Valentines…today and everyday. My heart will always be yours. Thank you for taking such very good care of it. I intend to return the favor until all the lights go out…and then for even longer after that.
Love ALWAYS,
Your BFF
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