Old friends.

Some friends I 've been in touch with for years.Actually I could count my friends on my fingers.These are special people.People who I can call at any time,drop in on them unexpectedly,call over when I am so bored with my own company that I could cry.Well some have been around for 25 years.Some even longer.All of us have some common line,some were in school together,some in college,others worked together.We discovered we had common friends and the bonds grew deeper.
Over the years,we have shared our taste for entertainment,books,men,relationships.Its uncanny how we would pour over those silly questionnaires in women's magazines only to realise that we all got the same or similar scores,so we start doing them for ourselves and then for our friends.
As we grew older,our style sense get more similar,we wear similar clothes,have our hair cut the same way.We live within shouting distance of each other,not by intent or design but by sheer accident.
We didn't realise how similar we had become.We didn't realise that we had influenced each others lives so much that we could finish a sentence for the other.It was driven home to us at a party.My friend and I walked into the room,and someone who didn't know us in the group thought we were sisters.We looked at each other and laughed but that was it.
Soon I was out with another friend also of 20 odd years and the same question.I couldn't look like three people all at once could I but the similarities were there.We even chose the same colours,used the same phrases,even married people who had lots in common with each other.
I begin to think that my real sisters have far less in common with me than these girlfriends of long ago.Maybe this is called sisterhood.Well whatever it is I sure am glad these girls are so much a part of my life.