Who is Your Best Friend?

The other day, someone at "Let Life In" asked me who my best friend is (was).  I thought for a second and said:

My best friend’s name is Howie. We have been friends for more than 37 years.

There was to be a rock concert during the summer of 1969 and we decided it might be fun to go. So did a million or so other people. What was just supposed to be a rock concert in the middle of the summer turned out to be Woodstock.

It also turned into the bonding of a friendship. Woodstock was a shared experience for everyone who attended but it was more personal to us. We had gone through a major event together. It’s hard to explain, maybe you had to be there, but that shared, rather unique experience was pivotal to the start of a lifelong friendship.

We’re both almost 60 now and have been there for each other for almost all the major events of each others lives---girlfriends, break-ups, career successes, job losses, marriages, having kids, moves across the country, illnesses, recoveries, major holidays, adoptions, raising kids, kids’ marriages—you name it.

Share your experience with us. Start with ‘My best friend’s name is -----------.  We’ll post some on the online magazine ‘Let Life In” www.LetLifeIn.com