Question...

One of my sorority sisters posted this question on our discussion board.....do adult women have best friends, BFFs, home girls? After I responded to her post, I felt my answer would make a good home here as well.....

 

Growing up I never thought I would have a best friend....someone I could confide in, talk to on the phone, someone who would like me 'just cause'. My first best friend (in a little girl's mind) was in my third grade class. We had the same first name and last initial, so there was no 'Kathy S'...it was Kathy Smith and Kathy Stallard (at least our middle names were different; I was a Marie and she was a Lynn....yeah, I do remember that). Long story short, she moved away at the end of the school year; we were heart broken and cried all day the last day of school. I never saw her again. I secretly vowed never to have a best friend again, if she was going to move away/something happen, and my heart get broken again.

 

Fast forward to college, when, during my sophmore year, I was approached about being on the charter line of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority on Va. Tech's campus. It was then that I met the young woman who would be our number 1, our Navigator, while online (yes, we walked in line back then). Through hell and high water over the years, she became my ACE, my best friend, my confidant, the little sister that I never had, my heart to the point that I couldn't imagine life without her. We talk everyday.....agree to disagree.... giggling like school girls when we are together and crying as if our hearts are breaking when we separate. She's had my back whenever I needed someone to depend on; I was on her doorstep within 24 hours of the world that she had known came crashing down around her.

 

My mother always told me to give those we love 'their flowers' while they live....to tell others how we feel about them before there comes a time that we are no longer together in the physical. There are not enough words that I can find to tell this woman how much she has impacted my life, how proud of her I am in all her accomplishments, how much she is missed, how much she is loved by my family and me.

 

So, to answer my sorority sister's question, do adult women have best friends, BFFs, home girls? Oooooh heck yes! and I've got the tatoo to prove it...... KB/KS SFL (Sisters for Life).