the roads we take

“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart”- Elizabeth Foley

It’s amazing to me how true this is. Through life’s twists and turns my closest friends have all taken drastically different paths from each other. Some are married and some are not. Some have children. None of us have chosen the same career. Most of us are geographically separated. We are all on different roads heading to different destinations, but thank God that our roads intersect from time to time. We used to be little cookie-cutter molds of one another. We thought that we were individuals back then, but in reality we were a bunch of individuals walking down the same road, in step with one another, growing together. It reminds me of the saying, “Just remember you are unique, just like everyone else.” But there came a point in the road when we all took different routes, and that isn’t a bad thing. In fact, there is a lot of beauty in that. We started to grow separately, but we never grew apart. Some walk smooth and even roads, while others walk rough and rugged roads, but the intersections of our roads are always level and offer a perfect place to rest. I look forward to the next intersection.