I get by....

I get by with a little help from my friends. 

You ever find that person or group of people who just get you?  They know your strength and your vulnerability and they love all of you the same.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Some people are lucky enough to find that type of bond with our significant other, some with our familes, or possibly that one true friend you've known since you were little.    

What if you found those bonds with a whole group of trusted friends? Friends who have known you for many years.  They have seen your life cycles of getting older.  Through kids and divorces, sickness and health, the ups and the downs.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

They are life long friendships that will never be severed because the bonds are just too strong.  

You can laugh until you cry.

You can cry until you laugh.

You can be yourself or any version of yourself and it's all the same.

No amount of distance.

No amount of time 

No amount of life

Will sever the bonds.

When this happens in life, you often don't know it until you get older and reflect.  You discover how lucky you got and hold on to the cherished friendships that have found you.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I got lucky with college/sorority sisters   A group of women. Who would never have found one another if we didn't all just happen to make a decision to go to the same school and pledge the same sorority.  

It's was coincidence.  

That's all it was.

We took similar roads.  

And it's not as if we all stayed in touch over the years.  Some girls fell away never to be heard from again.  Maybe one person, once, 10 years ago, heard something crazy about where the girl ended up.  

No one really knows much about the abyss of forgotten sisters.  We often just speculate.  

The ones who stick and show up and continue to make an effort to go on the crazy trips and share our kids and our lives.  These are the keepers.  These are the girls that survived.  

I get by with a little help from my friends..

We survived marriage, births, divorces, raising children, surgeries, relocation, job loss, nutty boyfriends.  We survived all if it and yet our constant is one another.  

We were here.  Laughing at the jokes.  All the jokes, reminding us life is way too short not to stop and laugh together.  

We get it. We get to laugh together because we get the jokes together.  There's always a new spin on the old jokes and we laugh, and we laugh.  And we love more, because we laugh.

In our hearts we allow our spirits to soar to new heights.