I have had very few friendships like that in my life. Really, I can count them on one finger. (Addison, that means you!)
Anni came into my life as a client last year and stepped up to help me with my PI newsletter. We bartered sessions for website work and ideas and all kinds of things. It was truly a win/win for us both. And in the process of all that, we became best friends. Not a day goes by that we don’t touch base – usually by sharing these voice memos that we sent to each other called “Gorky Grams”. (Why Gorky? Because every time we went to write “Hey Girly” on our iPad, it spell-checked it as “Gorky” which is barely even a word but whatever.)
We blather on for a long time about our day and whatever happened (or didn’t), recipes she’s tried (she eats some interesting food, yo!) and often discuss PI business. Mostly, though, I think it’s so that we can feel like we’re in each other’s energy because that kind of friendship feeds my soul and I think it’s that way for her, too.
She is my biggest cheerleader, my partner-in-crime (good thing we don’t live near each other!) and someone who can hold the high vibration for me when I fall off the ledge every once in a while. I would be so lost without her love and friendship and I feel beyond blessed every single day that she came into my life.
So, this is my tribute to my best friend, Anni. Whether we’re “Trollin’ in the deep”, talking to beings on other planets, chillin’ with Sister Gracie or whining about certain idiot brokers and their minions, we always have fun.
Love you to the moon and back.
So happy for both of you. That is wonderful thing.
My BFF and I have know each other for well over 20 years now. We jokingly refer to each other as “same-sex platonic life-partners” and I wouldn’t be who I am today without her. In total, we’ve lived in the same area for about six years (two in the beginning and four later) in that time, but it simply doesn’t matter.
Thank you for this beautiful tribute post – I love you too Gorky!
As you know (because you commented on it on my blog), I have been reassessing a long-time friendship myself and learned the hard way that you can’t trust your vulnerable self to casual friends. You have to preserve that for the real ones. So I think it’s unutterably cool that you have a friend who gives you the comfort and space and support to be yourself. Yea!