Travel – traveling through a journey with friends. For some reason, I am thinking about when I traveled through one of my best friend’s life journeys. Hers was a journey that many have taken, no one wishes for. One that has the potential to teach us a lot, in a cruel, hard way.
Connie’s journey started six months after she was married. Her journey was spelled with a small “c” not a capital “C”. Her journey brought her to Texas, Michigan, and other places around the country.
She was the first I knew to have an operation in her brain. I remember when she shared with me, she said it felt really weird. “It was a different sensation. They couldn’t put me totally under, because they are operating on the brain. I sensed someone was there doing something, but it didn’t hurt. It was just different.”
I remember when I moved away from the south Florida area where Connie and I had met and had become close friends. She was so angry with me. She shared, I get close to someone and then they leave. I assured her that even though I was moving a few hours away we would always be friends. I would never “leave.”
That promise truly played itself out a few years later when Connie was diagnosed with brain cancer. I had never known anyone who had been diagnosed with that before, nor did I know anyone who had ever had brain surgery. Since then I have met many people, and seen so many amazing success stories.
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