So today I was scrolling Facebook, taking a mental break between tasks and I saw a post about Bikini Kill reuniting for a tour. Now I'm not a huge Bikini Kill fan and I never claimed to be so don't start with the hold poser bs. But I do love Kathleen Hanna and my former bestie soulsister loved them. We bonded over Kathleen's bio movie back on one of my birthdays.
So back to the post. So I saw the post and my 1st thought was "Oh yeah, I can't wait to tell Soulsister and even take SwornEnemy." Now obvious I used their real names in my mind but I don't do that here. Then I was hit with a wave of sadness. The quick stab of "they don't speak to you anymore." It was not until that moment that I remembered they were gone out of my life. Like I knew it but for half a second, I didn't, if that makes sense.
Soulsister has been on my mind off and on for the last year anyway. Something about 2018 being so crappy and lonely that made me really long for the days when I had a person. For upwards of two years Soulsister was the one person who cheered me on and literally the only person who congratulated me when I got the news I got into my doctoral program. A fellow introvert and wife of a recovering alcoholic, she knew me in and out. I like to think that maybe we could be friends again later on but who knows.
The point is that I guess despite my best efforts to forgot people, I knew do. I pray for them. Think about them. Have wonderful conversations with a version of them that lives in my mind. (We introverts have lots of "conversations that we will never actually have.) So Bikini Kill is having a reunion tour, maybe DH will go with me.
So back to the post. So I saw the post and my 1st thought was "Oh yeah, I can't wait to tell Soulsister and even take SwornEnemy." Now obvious I used their real names in my mind but I don't do that here. Then I was hit with a wave of sadness. The quick stab of "they don't speak to you anymore." It was not until that moment that I remembered they were gone out of my life. Like I knew it but for half a second, I didn't, if that makes sense.
Soulsister has been on my mind off and on for the last year anyway. Something about 2018 being so crappy and lonely that made me really long for the days when I had a person. For upwards of two years Soulsister was the one person who cheered me on and literally the only person who congratulated me when I got the news I got into my doctoral program. A fellow introvert and wife of a recovering alcoholic, she knew me in and out. I like to think that maybe we could be friends again later on but who knows.
The point is that I guess despite my best efforts to forgot people, I knew do. I pray for them. Think about them. Have wonderful conversations with a version of them that lives in my mind. (We introverts have lots of "conversations that we will never actually have.) So Bikini Kill is having a reunion tour, maybe DH will go with me.
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