If you have a beautiful female friendship, flaunt it

Dear woman, if you have a beautiful female friendship with any woman, flaunt it. Enjoy that relationship for as long as it lasts.

Don’t let the fear of being stabbed in the back keep you from enjoying beautiful relationships with the women in your life.

This morning, I was listening to a woman tell another woman this morning not to flaunt her friendship with one of her close female friends.

According to this adviser, women are the worst enemies of women and female friendships don’t last because of envy and unnecessary competition.

She told this woman to stop posting her pictures with her friend and stop expressing her love for her so that people won’t laugh at her when the friendship goes south.

I shook my head.

While it is true that some women have low self esteem and see other women as their competition, there are some people enjoying great female friendships.

I’m one of them. I have met women who didn’t know me from Adam go out of their way to do something for me without expecting anything back in return.

I have been friends with women on Facebook who haven’t met me yet they stood by me when I needed help and supported me.

I have female friends that can show up at my door whenever they feel something is wrong with me just to talk, take me out for a drink just to cheer me up and give me hope for a better tomorrow.

Does this mean that there are no mean witches in this world who stab their female friends in the back without blinking? No. There are bad and heartless women who hurt other women because of men, money and low self worth.

Will this stop other women from having female friends and sharing their lives with these women? No.

If you are my friend, I will flaunt our friendship. I will tell you how I feel about you. I will tell the world about us too. I will celebrate our friendship and build memories with you.

If the relationship goes south, I will move on with my life in silence. Nobody will know what happened between us except if you go about telling people your own version of the story.

At this point in my life, I only have time and energy for meaningful, deliberate and rewarding friendships. If by any chance, it doesn’t work out, I move. I’m not a tree.