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Day 148 of Quarantine Meme

Secouya
Secouya

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In memory of my best friend Caroline, today's meme is about friendships. True friends accept everything about you, including your flaws. They are there for your best and your worst moments. Tell us about a special friend in you life and how you met.


Caroline worked with my mom for 30 + years. When I started working for the same entity, different division from my mom, we naturally became friends. She was like family. Caroline always gave me support and kindness. Our lives in many ways were parallel. We both had PTSD, we both had disabled siblings that we cared for and we both loved canines, dining out and could talk on the phone for hours. Her last words to me were I love you. I will always remember her laugh and smile.

AngelaJo
AngelaJo
I have a friend online we have never met but we are so much alike. When we because friends i was a caregiver for my late husband, she had just become a caregiver for her fiance and his mom. We both have dealt with self harm and depression and our bdays are the same month only shes two years older. We both collect stuffed animals, me bears and unicorns her sloths and a few others. We are like sisters more than best friends and have been for many many years now. We may have never met but i know if we do it will be the same.
rroo
rroo
what do u think happens after a person dies? do they go somewhere or is it just over?
i'm really sorry ur friend died.
my brother was my best friend.
Thor2008
Thor2008
I had a lot of friends. Very rich social life. They all left when I had trouble. I found out their true worth when I was left alone.
irishwriter
irishwriter
I too used to have many friends who left when the 'crap hit the fan' but I absolutely appreciate the few I still have but unfortunately they all live quite a distance away from me.
secouya, it is good to read about caroline and that you can remember and think about such lovely times.
rroo, I believe that we are the stories of our lives and that those who have died live on in all the times we spent with them and the memories we have that we can take out and look at and smile about all the time so they live on with us.
I think of my two brothers (suicides) and my mother and friends often with a smile when I see something of theirs or in old photos or the sound of a song we likes or eat foods once shared.
Secouya
Secouya
True friends can be a blessing. Rroo, it’s hard to say for sure. What I can tell you is that my experience with death which is hard for me to talk about, was that I was in a lot of pain. I saw my life, the good and bad, all of my pain was gone and I was at peace. I was a child and everyone who passes through is a child. I saw those close to me and what they were currently doing. I had a choice to come back or go into what looked like a bright light, but I was in my late 20s. My experience makes me not afraid of it.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry that you lost your friend.... I find as I get older more and more people are gone...

Sadly it's something that you learn to accept with age... I find having a faith makes a huge difference...... I think this is one of the main things that faith is about..... xo
Secouya
Secouya
Thanks SunCloud. I think what’s been bothering me the most is that with COVID there is no closure and with Caroline she was really more like my sister and she was not that old and went so quickly.
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