What, if anything does International Women's Day mean to you? I must admit when I was asked this question I was slightly baffled. My first answer was 'not much'.
But then I got thinking about it and I realise that it means not taking my friends (who are now mainly women) forgranted. When I was younger I had very few girl friends, I've never just had the one best friend. All my closest friends were male.
However as I got older I began to realise how good my female friends are, there are different ones for different occasions. Yesterday I had lunch with a friend who I had met many years ago on a Thai Massage course, we stayed in touch and were quite surprised to realise that we hadn't seen each other for nearly a eyar. But the whole point was it didn't matter. Lunch lasted two and a half hours and it was great.
Today when I went into work it was the bantering amongst us all that I loved. Different women of different backgrounds and ages but we were all, as they say 'having a right laugh'.
So today I shall treasure all my friends but especially my female ones with a special blessing to two Wise Women.
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