Windblown Nico and lovely Cleo, cheering for our respective teams!

I’ve as of late resumed my friendship with a good friend, Kristiane. Though we’ve known each other for 11 years now, we had some serious ups and downs. After being close for the first few years of our friendship, we moved in together with another friend of ours, and things fell apart. I could blame it on being a silly twenty year old, too irresponsible to handle being out on my own, or being a terrible friend. But in retrospect it doesn’t seem like we were meant to be good friends until we had our lives in order. True, after a few years of not speaking, we met up again, hung out briefly, and again parted ways. Not even in a negative way, just drifted apart, and then together, and then apart again. So after a christmas card from Kristiane’s mom last year, I called her again. And only last week, we resumed our friendship. This time feels different though, more permanent. Kristiane thought it was perhaps both of us being in a better place, and I can’t say I disagree. At age 29, with very few female friends (due to pickiness, or high standards, I don’t know), its such a great feeling to be friends again. I feel so much like I can relate to her life, and I hope that she feels the same. Though we have both taken drastically different routes to get here, we have had some similar experiences. Its hard not to reminisce about the past, the good times I mean. We had some crazy times together, and it reminds me of why I like her so much, why she’s always been a person I admired and tried to emulate. I plan to make this lasting, and after the match on Saturday between Sweden and Germany, I hope that Johan will become friends with Kristiane’s husband, Ralf. Yesterday she came over with their daughter Cleo, and we had a lovely day walking around Belmont Shore and along the beach. Its a really sweet thing in my life and I’m so happy about our new/old friendship.

Music: Annie – “Chewing Gum” (Anniemal, 2004)