Why Women Need Their Girlfriends
How many of you have seen that meme of 3 old ladies being a total boss and having a good time with the caption ‘Me and my besties when we are 70!’? I’m sure you must have tagged your girl gang right there to show how much you love them. But the fact is that many of us might not realize the importance of this bond, not yet at least.
We all know how important our girlfriends are for us when we are young. They are the ones that come to our rescue when we need to borrow clothes for that super important date, they help us keep our studies and extracurricular on track and remind us to hydrate and rest enough. They are the ones that come to our rescue when we just need to sit back and relax and also when we need to go out and party. And most important of all- they are there for us to protect against rude boys and whatever else the cat might drag in.
But what we don’t realize is that the role of our girlfriends doesn’t end up at holding us while we puke out a nasty hangover or try to figure out what adulting really is. They are there for us through every major life event. Be it high school, college, first job, marriage, whatever you might name. And when we have had our fair share of ups and downs, we realize that they are also our staunchest support systems through the greatest tragedies of our lives.
There is no hard and fast rule for who qualifies to be in your girl gang. It could be your childhood best friend, your college roommate and your first ever colleague. Just make sure that the friendships you formed along the course of your life are important. And they don’t have to get over just because that particular phase of your life is.
Because you never know when you’ll need these ladies the most. And if you’ve treasured your friendship and honored it through the years, rest assured you will have lifelong support from your girls.
It can be a bit difficult to understand the importance of this lifelong support when you are young and carefree. It is easy to make friends when you are young and you think that you will always have as many friends as you feel like. But through the years the opportunities and the motivation to make new ones dwindle considerably. But if you have not forgotten your old ones in the process of making new, you don’t need to worry.
You see when we advance to the more mature years of our lives, when the tragedies are a lot worse and irreversible than our college days, only someone who has known us for all our lives can rescue us from the trauma. Someone who has handled your breakups in college might be the only person who can handle when you have to face the biggest heartbreak of all.
When life throws deaths, divorces and terminal diseases at you, having your girl gang by your side would be more than just a relief. It would be like getting a second chance at life.