Awesome Women

I'm just home after spending the afternoon with my best friend from high school. We've been friends for nearly (omg) 20 years and now I have moved back home we pathetically had only managed to catch up once in 3 months! So today we got together for a coffee and freakily managed to BOTH be without kids for the afternoon! It was unbelievable.

We got to talking about my trip of course and we talked about how I got a little (okay a lot) emotional on seeing the Hollywood sign. See, we both studied Drama in high school together (it's how we got to become really close friends) and she told me about a bad experience she had with another of our teachers. Basically he had been dating her mum, and when it all went sour, he failed my friend, thus ending her chances of further success in the field of acting.

This got me thinking about how influential our teachers are, and how one little thing can change the course of a persons life. Both these drama teachers we had have a hell of a lot to answer for and I truly hope that they questioned their abilities and worth as teachers. Of course they probably didn't, but I can live in hope.

We are still both awesome women regardless of what they said to us. Both of us are mums and businesswomen and have successful lives. But we both talked of the 'what ifs' this afternoon ... what if we had both made it and gone to study at NIDA ... just where would we be today?

I had such a good time this afternoon, being with someone who knows my secrets exactly like I know all hers. A friendship that has survived heartbreak and distance. We both missed each others weddings as she was in WA when I married in Victoria, and I was in WA when she married in Victoria! But she is and has been my best friend through everything and I am so glad that now we can share our awesome lives together in the same town again!

(For you Nat .. thank you for the last however many years! PS I still can't get over those couple of weeks you stole Matt from me before we became really good mates!! I also cannot get over the fact that he gave you MY ring ... thanks for giving it back to me but!!)