True Friendship

If you're lucky there are people in your life to which time is irrelevant. You can be apart for months or years at a time and yet when you see each other it's like no time has passed at all, you just pick up where you left off without so much as missing a beat.
I am one of the lucky ones that I am blessed to have such friends in my life, something for which I will be eternally grateful.

When I got married last year I had three bridesmaids to stand with me and my maid of honour. All who mean a huge amount to me. One of which I hadn't seen or spoken to in years, and yet she still stood tall on the most important day of my life like she had never been anywhere else. She is, and always will be, a true friend. We've not seen each other since and I still know when I see her next no time will have passed in our friendship.

And then in September this year I was honoured to stand by a friend and promise to always be there for her daughter, as her godmother. It'd been almost four years since I saw her and her husband and son last as they now live in the US, and my first reaction upon seeing her was to drop everything I was carrying to run across the room and hug her tightly. That day we laughed, cried and talked together and it will always remain in my memory as a testament to our friendship that time nor distance can change us.

Then there was tonight. I've been out tonight with a friend who lives in South Africa, who I've not seen in the best part of two years, and who's first reaction to me wasn't awkward or strange but simply a hug and the acknowledgement of affection regardless of time or space. We've spent the evening catching up on the good, the bad, and the ugly and I left to go home with the sense of gratitude that he is here for one more week and I will see him at least once more before he flies off again. 

If you're as lucky as me to have these sorts of people in your life, hold them tight. They're worth so much and they should know it.