Lunch With Girlfriends …
As women, we’ve always valued our friendships with other women.
As baby boomer women, those friendships become ever more precious.
We’ve spent what seems like a lifetime caring for others, sometimes at great expense to ourselves, and we’ve devoted countless hours and years to careers. Now it’s YOUR time.
In generations past, it was called retirement, and you had a few more good years to enjoy what was left of your life. For us, it’s just a beginning, or better, an encore. It’s what comes next because we all know slowing down is not in the cards.
This post is a little different from others in that I’m sharing something that came across my feed this week, and it is so appropriate to who we are as baby boomer women and the lives we’re living now. It’s a piece by Kathy O’Malley called Lunch With Girlfriends:
Elaine’s vertigo has never been worse
Kay can’t recall where she left her purse
Rhonda’s about to replace her knees
Linda’s breathing is tinged with a wheeze
Donna’s left boob has a troublesome lump
Diane’s on her third trip to take a dump
Lorraine’s husband can’t remember a thing
Nine years a widow, Marge still wears her ring
Marlene is dealing with another UTI
Sally’s giving a hearing aid another try
Marie has decided she can’t drive at night
Sharon still wears clothes two sizes too tight
They’ve been through divorces and babies and wakes
They do for each other whatever it takes
They’ve already buried Marcia and Kate
And truthfully, Lizzie’s not looking so great
So whenever they can, they get out to eat
Open bottles of wine and forget their sore feet
There’s laughing and crying and letting down guards
And when the bill comes, there’s ten credit cards
So here’s to the waiters who keep orders straight
And to the places that let lunches run three hours late
And here’s to the girlfriends, those near and those far
Here’s to the girlfriends, you know who you are!!!
When work is done, and you’re into the “what’s next” questions, the one thing that needs to remain constant is your bond with friends. They will carry you through the tough times, help you weather the storms, and celebrate with you, even when there’s nothing to celebrate.
Women need other women. Do you remember the book (and subsequent movie) Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood? That is precisely what I’m talking about. And it doesn’t have to be ten women at lunch like in the poem. It can be three women – three who are there for each other in all things.
The bottom line is we need connection to each other, whatever that looks like for you. Find your Ya-Ya’s and cherish them every day.
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