A Blog, what for ?

Some of you who have a blog, have you ever had this question (most of the time from people without one): A blog, what for ?

Well, I have a great story to tell you which will in a second explain the point of it all.

When a kid at high school, I felt I was different and tried hard (too hard certainly...) to fit in. I had a very good friend : Joelle was her name. She was an odball, a different girl. Tall and blonde, dressed in black most of the time, funny like hell. We used to share incredible evenings together, talking and laughing, drinking and smoking like only 17 year old kids know how, like tomorrow did not exist, like we were the only ones in the world.

We kept in touch through most of University. Then I went my way and she went hers... I went to Paris, The US and back. And 10 years went by without any news.

I thought often of her all these years. What had happened to her ? Was she happy wherever she was ?

One week ago, at a point in my life when I need most my friends, I got a short email from an unknown address. I usually erase these whitout even opening them, and for a minute I almost did, but... I did not.

The email read :

Hi,
Do you remember me ? I am Joëlle from Bossuet High School. I have often thought of you and recently I looked your name up on the internet and your blog came up. I was so happy to see pictures of you... Do you want to contact me ?

Did I want to contact her ? What a joke, of course I did. I called her last Sunday. I was so touched when I heard her voice, and her smile in it. It happens that she lives in a big house in the mountains half an hour from my parent's...

I'll keep you posted on this story when I go south and see her or when she comes and stays with me !