A FUNNY THING HAPPENED...
A few weeks ago, I was browsing the local Staples and one of their employees walked up on me and started breathing down my back. After he damn near bumped me out of the isle, I turned around, mugged the hell out of him and swung back around to my shopping cart. Then I did a double take. It was...wait for it...yet another one of those old friends from "back in the day".
This time it was a little different. He was a very good friend of my Godbrothers and back then, we were tight like glue. NEVER intimate...never went there...was never even attracted to him or his type...just a good friend that walked with me during some of the highest and lowest points of my life (ok, until the age of about 26). It was so good to see him after about 7 years...I started cussing his ass out immediately with the "Where the hell you been?" tirade.
I knew he was in touch with my Godbrother and told him to call him up. So he did and when my Godbrother got on the phone with me, he hollered my maiden name - same way he did when we were younger - and gave his signature smirky laugh. "I mean, where you been Godsister? I only been lookin for you for about 3 or 4 years now".
I concede to being a pretty crappy person when it comes to staying in touch with folks from 'round the way. I eluded to that many times in this here blog. I guess I always felt like if we go back to them days than the results would be the same: drama, death and dysfunction. And I have grown up, so that shit is not appealing at all.
Well, I stepped out there and gathered my three girls and my Godbrother for a mini family reunion. It was love. I can't begin to describe what its like to know someone when they was young, wild and reckless and to now see them as grown, chill and responsible people and parents. But thats what happened to my fam. We laughed and just took it all in.
I may not be THAT girl I once was...and thank God for that...but shades of her still exist. I used to fight it, hide it even. But looking at it now...THAT girl made me into THIS woman.
A few weeks ago, I was browsing the local Staples and one of their employees walked up on me and started breathing down my back. After he damn near bumped me out of the isle, I turned around, mugged the hell out of him and swung back around to my shopping cart. Then I did a double take. It was...wait for it...yet another one of those old friends from "back in the day".
This time it was a little different. He was a very good friend of my Godbrothers and back then, we were tight like glue. NEVER intimate...never went there...was never even attracted to him or his type...just a good friend that walked with me during some of the highest and lowest points of my life (ok, until the age of about 26). It was so good to see him after about 7 years...I started cussing his ass out immediately with the "Where the hell you been?" tirade.
I knew he was in touch with my Godbrother and told him to call him up. So he did and when my Godbrother got on the phone with me, he hollered my maiden name - same way he did when we were younger - and gave his signature smirky laugh. "I mean, where you been Godsister? I only been lookin for you for about 3 or 4 years now".
I concede to being a pretty crappy person when it comes to staying in touch with folks from 'round the way. I eluded to that many times in this here blog. I guess I always felt like if we go back to them days than the results would be the same: drama, death and dysfunction. And I have grown up, so that shit is not appealing at all.
Well, I stepped out there and gathered my three girls and my Godbrother for a mini family reunion. It was love. I can't begin to describe what its like to know someone when they was young, wild and reckless and to now see them as grown, chill and responsible people and parents. But thats what happened to my fam. We laughed and just took it all in.
I may not be THAT girl I once was...and thank God for that...but shades of her still exist. I used to fight it, hide it even. But looking at it now...THAT girl made me into THIS woman.
posted by The DJs WIFE at 4:52 PM
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