A new normal - #5 Connect with Friends

Here were the 2018 goals I set last January - 

I accomplished some of them! Yippee skippee for me!  The one goal I set out has been so stinkin' fun that I thrived on accomplishing it and I did! I had lunch with a friend EVERY single week and honestly one a few weeks I had lunch with two and even three friends during the week.  I am also not any heavier than I was in January! Double yippee skippee for me!!  I now wish I had taken a selfie of every lunch date but I was not even sure I was going to make it one month or two.  Here is what I have learned from this personal challenge:

1. I need girlfriends.  I have always relied heavily on my mother's friendship that girlfriends stayed in the fringe.  I need girlfriends and I am confident in asking for friendships now. 

2. I do not replace my mom, her friendship with others but I can fill my soul in a new way.  I have become a better friend for those around me.  I CHOOSE to have deeper friendships and that was a choice I previously was never willing to make.  We all have the same 24 hours in a day, I choose to spend it in connection with girlfriends. 

Will I continue to lunch with friends?... yes, because I need girl-friendships to survive and thrive.