When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best

friend. And then I started to become a woman.

 

And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up, you will

be shown the best in many friends.

 

One friend is needed when you're going through things with your partner.

 

Another friend is needed when you're going through things with your

parents.

 

Another will sit beside you in the bleachers as you delight in your

children and their activities.

 

Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.

 

One friend will say, 'Let's cry together,' another, 'Let's fight

together,' another, 'Let's walk away together.'

 

One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish,

another your love for movies, another will be with you in your season

of confusion, another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath

your wings.

 

But whatever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion,

on whatever the day, or wherever you need them to meet you with their

gym shoes on and hair pulled back, or to hold you back from making a

complete fool of yourself...

 

Those are your best friends.

 

It may all be wrapped up in one woman, but for many, it's wrapped up

in several... one from 6th grade, one from high school, some from the

college years, a couple from old jobs.

 

On some days your mother. On some days your neighbor. On others, your

sisters, nieces, cousins. And on some days, your daughters