Best Friend Forever

Formentera, August 2019

Tamsin and i met in june 1986 when entering the class room to my new school. My mother had decided to leave Munich and start a new life on the island of Formentera two month after the accident of Tchernobyl’s nuclear power plant had occurred. I did not speak spanish or english yet but it was more then clear that us two eleven year old girls had to become friends.

This is 33 years ago. We have lived together in Madrid in our early twenties, spent a couple of years in distance, reunified to do a Thelma and Louise trip from Paris to Barcelona, filled with drama. We celebrated our marriages (her father actually gave me away) and i enjoy to be the auntie of her three daughters. All in all we know each other very well and there is absolutely nothing that could tear us apart as we have gone through many pleasant and unpleasant things already. I admire her for the strenght, her distinguished intelligence, her ability to adapt to every situation, reliability and her diversity in interests and curiosity for life. She is very goodlooking and athletic but always comes to late to appointments and has a tendency of messiness , collecting items or responsibilities and duties she does not need. Sometimes she would do several appointments at the same time just because she would not be able to say no to anyone. Especially after becoming a mom, the egoism and consciousness about her own needs have stood a little too far behind. It is a stressy life to be a good caring mom, doing a good money job within the field of studies with an MBA and on top of it building up a new business beside. No clue where she gets the energy from but i truly admire her, though wish at the same time she’ d step back a little to enjoy the precious time of leisure and happiness. One does not know how precious time is if you take it for granted.

Today, her father took us on his old sailing boat to spend the day in the water with her little girls and we felt like back in the days when we were kids.