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Finding Your Julie
We all need our “person”
One of THE most important things that has happened to me is meeting my friend, jules - Miz Mindful. Before I even knew I was about to be thrown into the hardest chapter of my adult life, I’d found someone who just “got” me. I know it sounds cliché, but it’s true.
I actually met Jules right here on Medium. We wrote for the same publication and had similar ideals. As we started to chat, we found that we had a lot more in common than should have been possible. She was a city girl from California, and I was a country girl from Nebraska. Though we should have been polar opposites, we were two peas in a pod.
In truth, we are complete opposites…of the same coin. Jules is cool and collected, my research queen. Anytime I’m in search of something, she’s usually found it before I finish telling her about it. Whenever I start going off on one of my tangents, she has the ability to pull me back in.
I’m a lot more flighty and scatterbrained. I go a hundred miles an hour, in ten different directions, and throw caution to the wind. When Jules starts to second-guess herself because something she’s done isn’t absolutely perfect, I remind her that she doesn’t need to be perfect. She only needs to BE.
Jules has been a Single Gray since I’ve known her. As she and I shared our stories, we realized that…
