My Friends

I was just texting some friends back and forth and I was trying to be hesitant. So I used this emoji: 🫦

One of them replied with 👅👅 and I laughed out loud because it’s what they used to text me!! But they stopped when I got sexually assaulted by a stranger last year. I can laugh about it now but months ago I was like omg I don’t want to go out anymore.

Then another set of friends was sharing the songs they made on an AI app. I don’t really visit this group chat because I am friends with 2 of them and the rest are their friends they know from the internet. One of them I’ve known since before 2010. We used to karaoke. I had a lot of karaoke parties in my 20s. I did enjoy those a lot. I still karaoke now and then.

So I was intrigued by the AI app (my friend helped me make my first one) and I have now made 42 songs in the last 24 hours! I told them I’m about to cut an album. But it provided much needed comic relief because I think recently I’ve not been having such a great time. But! We pivot! We navigate. And we will come out the other side okay-er than when we first entered this funk.

I think next week I can share the story. For now I am unable to because we’re dealing with an unhinged person and God knows what they’ll do.

I love my friends and I am happy they love me back.. and front.