I finally removed my yearbooks from my parents house recently and came across my senior book. In it, I wrote about spending time with my group of friends in high school going to the drive-in among other teenage pursuits. It got me thinking about how I miss having a group of friends. I don't think I've had a group of friends since college. None of my friends really like each other, as far as I can tell. Luckily they got along at my wedding and all of its festivities. Then I saw April post about a girl's night out with a group of friends. If I wanted to have a girl's night out, who would I invite? My hometown friends who have never associated with each other and then be able to schedule a good night away from their kids? Probably not. My friends in Lexington? No, I doubt they'd want to hang out with each other. A mix of them all? Just the ones with no kids? Just the ones with kids...wait that scheduling would never work. I couldn't invite my sister at all, I think she only likes one of my friends.
I've been spending time with my friends, separately, for almost 10 years now. Some I see more than others, but with marriage I see all of them less, as I expected since I've seen it happen to each friend who has gotten married. Now I'm finally in the club and I see them even less. It saddens me. You need your girlfriends at every stage of life, and my girlfriends are at different stages in their life. I wish I could find a good mix of them to form a circle instead of lines shooting out in different directions.
