Lauren and I just had our 10 year high school reunion. Official grandma status. I was on the committee, so although I was excited, my main goal was to support our class president (Go, Jill!) in making it all happen. I was going through the motions.
As the reunion got closer, we got more and more excited for the weekend of events. We had friends coming in town, we knew we would see old friends from Poms, there was an open bar (which was exciting for most -___-).
The weekend came and went. It was a blast! One of the things people kept mentioning is "It's not like we haven't seen each other." We are blessed to still be really close with so many of our friends from back in the day. But still in the moment, I was taking it all for granted.
It wasn't until I got a chance to reflect in the following week that I realized how blessed we are to still be holding on to high school relationships. As usual, people asked me how my weekend was and what I did. When I told people about the class reunion, I got a lot of strange looks and negative comments. People were telling me they had no interest in seeing people from high school or had lost touch completely. I thought about how all of our parents tried to prepare us, telling us that we wouldn't still be friends with the same people after high school. They're right about mostly everything, but I'm so glad there were wrong about this.
We haven't always been perfect to each other and we haven't always agreed. But we have been there for each other nonstop for 15+ years. We know each other to our core. We have done funerals, weddings, homecomings, birthdays, vacations, girls nights, movie nights, beach nights, get togethers, tattoo nights, nights out, nights in. The list goes on and on and on. There's nothing like that kind of love.
