Friend or Foe

I am at the point in my life where I am starting to reevaluate EVERYTHING!  I don't know if it is because I am now married and a mother or just part of growing up and maturing.  One of the things I have been reevaluating is friendships.  Do you ever feel like you have just outgrown some people?  Lately that is how I have been feeling with some of my friendships.  I have been able to sit back and ask myself if I am getting anything out of a friendship or are we simply friends out of convenience and/or circumstance.

Dave made the comment to me the other day that I have changed and I would definitely agree.  What use to matter to me just doesn't anymore.  For instance, drinking and partying.  I went to college and I partied, I partied when I finished grad school and moved to Shreveport but now. . . .I'm over it.  A good night to me is dinner with friends or just snuggling at home with my hubby and baby.  Not to say that I don't enjoy a glass of wine or beer because I definitely do!

I am just wanting to surround myself with people I actually enjoy being around and have similar interests.  There are some friends that no matter what in life changes, your friendship remains the same.  Examples of that is my best friend from high school, Jennifer and my best friend from college, Stacey.  Whenever we talk or see each other we just pick up right where we left off.  Even if it has been months, somehow magically our friendship is still just as strong.  This is the type of friends I want in my life.  The ones that will be there for you no matter what, the ones that love you for exactly who you are, the ones that know everything about you and don't judge.  Some of my closest friends right now are two girls and a guy that I work with.  I can just be myself and they don't make fun of me because I'm a little country or that I don't always wear the most fashionable thing.  I can tell them things and not have to worry that what I said in private is now all over Shreveport.  I have no use for "friends" that never call (ok, text because I hate talking on the phone), that don't care how you are, that judge you and talk about you behind your back.

Just my venting for today.  :)