Reasons for Smiling

So I'm definitely having one of those days where it's really difficult to keep perspective. Where every little trauma that happens is larger than life and all-consuming. And just when I'm running out of reasons to keep the tears secured tightly within my eye sockets I find this picture. You see, I have had the same 3 friends since 1st grade-21 years to be exact. But life takes you far away both in distance and daily routine. But this gift that life or fate or God or whoever has given to me is my most precious possession. This pic is missing one of us, but I Love it nonetheless. It is from a night last November when life wasn't going particularly well for yours truly. But Janessa was home from LA and that in itself calls for a celebration. And this is simply us being silly. Being in love with eachother as only old girlfriends can be. Ness called me this weekend over and over without leaving a message and when I frantically called her back, all sorts of emergencies were running through my overactive brain. She answered in tears and i wondered which of these tragic scenarios had come true. I awaited the bad news from this woman who is so much a part of me that I honestly don't know where she and I begin and end....."I just wanted to call and tell you how much I Love you and how lucky I feel that we are all still friends. Nobody has old friends like us. I don't know what I would do without you guys." Ahhh...A life worth living. We're lucky too Ness. Maybe the luckiest.