This is a continuation post from a few days ago... but I get to La Verne yesterday, the one and only hometown of my girl Kristen! I met her at a Chili's knowing that we would both be happy campers with chicken tenders and a margarita! Literally 4 hours passed. 4 HOURS! I can honestly, and proudly say that I had never accomplished such a thing before yesterday! It was so nice scratching the surface of what life has been like for the past few months for each other!
I've been trying to figure out this mystery, and I could be totally wrong and off, but I think I'm starting to get somewhere with it. I've had several conversations with a variety of my people about how we form our community of friends and the people we keep close to our hearts. I'm starting to think that we as humans sorta have this "Community Crunch Window" in our early 20s. During this time, we find people that make us feel complete and build our puzzle with ALL the pieces, edges, insides, everything! And we're not meant to spend our forever days with these people, but they hold such a special place in our heart and our lives that we will always have them as a foundation.
So basically, in other words, speaking from my own life at least, my friends that were my friends in my
"formative 20s" will always be my go-to. I think about a lot of these friendships and even though i don't get to talk to them all the time and spend every day with them, they will forever hold a fond spot in my heart.
I'm also not trying to say that you can never add to your foundation. I've met some WONDERFUL people that have brought many laughs and happiness and all other good-feeling things that were not in my early 20s. I'm just saying that I think we as humans are sorta wired to absorb people in a slightly different, yet significant way. And maybe my early 20s just represent one of those "I'm-becoming-me" phases of young adulthood, which is a scary thought in itself.... but I'm just thankful for the people of that phase of life, and really all people. If you haven't noticed, I'm a people person, and people leave their marks on me in mostly good ways ;)
In closing, here's an all-to-true Bible verse that I think wraps it up nicely:
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
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