…but maybe you would. I’m sitting in my kitchen sipping a yummy chocolate martini. I have four girls drinking Mojitos, singing karaoke and dancing. My younger daughter is having one of her famous girls’ weekends here at the Cape. We spent the day with them on the beach – they gave me something in a tiny can called Limaritas. It was good. Too good. It was a long walk home. Then my husband made fabulous food and now, at 10 pm they are ready for another dinner. He is firing up the grill for turkey burgers and portobello burgers. It’s been a long, but fun, day.
My daughter brings these same sets of girls here year after year. I love watching how the friendships survive over the years. They have their fights and disagreements, yet they remain the best of friends. They grow closer as they mature year after year. I love watching the antics and hearing the friendly banter as they dance and sing. This strikes me tonight especially because I’m in that meditation challenge with Oprah and Deepak on miraculous relationships, so I’m examining relationships that are all around me.
What makes this one work? I think it’s the energy all four of them put forth. They are all genuinely good people and it flows among them. Deepak mentioned a great study done with the measuring of water molecules. When love and respect and genuine joy were experienced around the water, the energy would take one form. When fear and depression and negative feelings were experienced around the water, the energy formation would change. It’s a very real, physical thing when we say we feel good or bad vibes emanating from someone – without a word spoken. The “vibes” are the energy being passed from one person to another without even speaking. Tonight, right in font of me, vibes are being tossed around while singing song lyrics. Then energy is good. It speaks of friendships that will be around a long time.
Do you have this type of girl or guy friendship? One that passes nothing but good between you and can survive aging and moving through the eras of life? These girls do. I have no doubt they will be returning to this beach house with husband and kids in tow – or maybe not – maybe they’ll just return for the traditional girls’ weekend when they’re late into their forties. Either way, it’s beautiful, this story of friendship, that’s unfolding in front of me.
And so, as another day goes by, we should all be so lucky to have these friendships that last through the ages, and…I have written.
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