It's All Gravy

When she reads this, I hope she knows this one is for her. Just for her. Bonded as family, not by blood...but by something much greater, a tremendous friendship. She and I have had very different journeys, but somehow relate to each other's struggles and strife. On our terms, we have a mutual understanding...no passing of judgement. As it should be, with friendships based on respect for one another...without having to share words. It exists there, and there it remains. Flourishes, when given the chance.

A few months ago, we met for dinner and drinks... the conversation lasted for hours. She comforted me with her words, helped dry my tears when needed and then, for no particular reason, we would switch gears... laughing aloud, without boundaries. We both needed that day...just us.

The next day, I opened an email from my friend. The email was the lyrics to a song (in its entirety) that she had listened to on her commute that very next morning....and thought of me. She wasn't feeling sorry for me, nope, absolutely not...she was giving me an anthem. Little did she know, that I had already identified with the song in more ways that I could explain. I have a feeling, she too had identified with it as well, in ways that I wasn't aware of, but could understand. An anthem that correlated to perfection with the words she had spoken to me the night before sitting in that restaurant, "Kelly, just let it go, let it all go"...

She knew that I had been carrying more that I could handle...similar in weight to what she had been carrying, but different. She herself was learning to...just let it go. She had, learned a lot...and her hope for me, was to find what I was looking for.

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, 

but also to the interests of others.” 
~ Phil 2:3,4