28/08/2026
There were two older women at a little outdoor café this morning splitting an enormous cinnamon roll.
They had apparently ordered one because neither of them wanted “a whole dessert before lunch.”
Then it arrived.
It was roughly the size of a dinner plate.
One woman looked at it and said, “Well, this was a terrible attempt at being responsible.”
Her friend immediately cut it in half.
“Too late now.”
They sat there for nearly an hour.
Coffee getting cold.
Shopping bags under the table.
Every few minutes one of them would start telling a story and the other would laugh before she even reached the ending.
At one point, they were laughing so hard that the woman facing me had to take off her glasses and wipe her eyes.
I don’t know what the story was.
I almost wish I did.
But watching them reminded me how good it is to have someone who already knows the beginning of half your stories.
Someone you don’t have to impress.
Someone who remembers who you were twenty years ago and still wants to meet you for coffee today.
There are friendships built around big moments.
And then there are the ones built from hundreds of ordinary mornings.
Personally, I think those might be the lucky ones.