Life Long Friends
Long term friends are somthing you have to earn. The way you talk to one another, care for and mercilessly tease one another is not somthing that just happens with the casually aquatinted. The dinner dynamics with this group here in Provence is wonderful and complicated. No backstabbing, but certainly open discussions and opinions. A hard tease one moment and then a loving smile the next. I don’t think my skin is as thick as theirs. Another good lesson to be learned; know that your good friends love you even when they are taking the piss out of you. I think I take it too personally. I need to remember that.