Safe For a Moment...
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atas jalinan sebuah perkawanan, selamat membaca...

A young wife sat on her porch in Waycross, Georgia, on a summer
day, drinking iced tea and visiting with her mother. As they talked
about life, about marriage, about the responsibilities of life and
the obligations of adulthood, the mother clinked the ice cubes in
her glass thoughtfully and turned a clear, sober glance upon her
daughter.

"Don't forget your girlfriends," she advised, swirling the tea
leaves to the bottom of her glass. They'll be more important as
you get older. No matter how much you love
your husband, no matter how much you love the children you'll have,
you are still going to need girlfriends. Remember to go places with
them now and then; do things with them. And remember that
girlfriends are not only your friends, but your sisters, your
daughters, and other relatives too. You'll need other women. Women
always do."

"What a funny piece of advice," the young woman thought. "Haven't I
just, gotten married? Haven't I just joined the couple-world? I'm
now a married woman, for goodness' sake, a grown-up, not a young
girl who needs girlfriends. Surely my husband and the family we'll
start will be all I need to make my life worthwhile."

But she listened to her mother; she kept contact with her
girlfriends and made more each year. As the years tumbled by, one
after another, she gradually came to understand that her mom really
knew what she was talking about. As time and nature work their
changes and their mysteries upon a woman, girlfriends are the
mainstays of her life.

After 50 years of living in this world, here is what I know about
girlfriends:

Girlfriends bring you casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you
need help.
Girlfriends keep your children and keep your secrets.
Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take it;
sometimes you don't.
Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're
usually honest.
Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your
choices.
Girlfriends laugh with you, and you don't need canned jokes to start
the laughter. Girlfriends pull you out of jams.
Girlfriends help you get out of bad relationships.
Girlfriends help you look for a new apartment, help you pack, and
help you move.
Girlfriends will give a party for your son or daughter when they get
married or have a baby, in whichever order that comes.
Girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and when the hard times
come.
Girlfriends will drive through blizzards, rainstorms, hail, heat, and
gloom of night to get to you when your hour of need is desperate.
Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a friend.
Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.
Girlfriends listen when your parents' minds and bodies fail.
Girlfriends cry with you when someone you loved dies.
Girlfriends support you when the men in your life let you down.
Girlfriends help you pick up the pieces when men pack up and go.
Girlfriends rejoice at what makes you happy, and are ready to go out
and kill what makes you unhappy.

Times passes.
Life happens.
Distance separates.
Children grow up.
Marriages fail.
Love waxes and wanes.
Hearts break.
Careers end.
Jobs come and go.
Parents die.
Colleagues forget favors.
Men don't call when they say they will.

But girlfriends are there, no matter how much time and how many miles
are between you.

My daughter, sister, sisters-in-law, mother-in-law, nieces,
cousins, extended family, and friends bless my life. The world
wouldn't be the same without them, and neither would I. When we
began this adventure called womanhood, we had no idea of the
incredible joys or sorrows that lay ahead,nor did we know how much
we would need each other.

Everyday, we need each other still.