conversations with T

i only see my best friend once every few months.
we make all these grandiose plans and they never pan out.
instead, we end up meeting at a second cup halfway between my place and hers to chat over my soy latte and her skinny chocolate chiller.

you see, my best friend has been battling addiction, depression and anxiety issues for more than 4 years now....although it could be argued for the better part of her life.
being clean for the last year has put her in a position to examine her life and find the things that make her happiest, but has also kept her from holding down a steady job (or have one that she has been on leave from for 4 months), leave the house regularly, or engage in social activities.
she wants to live her life and enjoy her life, not be bogged down with mental health issues.
so our conversations are usually pretty heavy
(albeit peppered with bits of comic relief due to T's obsession over celebrity lives...which would normally turn me off, but in T's case i know it is such a sense of enjoyment for her to be a part of the cult of celebrity just to laugh her ass off at the idiocy of it all)
but our meetings and chats are generally mirrored and whether T knows this or not, they are just as therapeutic for me as they are for her.
hence this new, somewhat sporadic, feature: conversations with T