Friendship - Blessed? Fortunate? Lucky?

bless•ed [blest] adjective
divinely or supremely favored; fortunate:

• to be blessed with a strong, healthy body; blessed with an ability to find friends.
• blissfully happy or contented.

for•tu•nate [fawr-chuh-nit] adjective
having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
bringing or indicating good fortune; resulting favorably; auspicious: She made a fortunate decision to go on to medical school.

luck•y [luhk-ee adjective
having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day. happening fortunately: a lucky accident.

Friendship!
How would you describe it?   You decide.   Blessed?   Fortunate?   Lucky?   I won’t go there.   The few of you who follow this blog can guess which one to discard/eliminate.

Why this subject?
It was a great weekend with lifelong friends...that’s why!

For starters, it began early Friday morning.   I picked up my best friend and his bride as they disembarked from the QM2 (yes...I have friends that can do the QM2!) at the Clinton piers in Brooklyn and dropped them off at LGA.   It was a short but sweet visit...and the sweet outweighed the short!   They are the best.   I would do anything for them!

Then there are more life-long friends.   One flew in from Cincinnati and another recently lost his life-long partner of 38 years.   Another is going through a “Jerry Springer like” divorce.   We’ve all known each other for over 5 decades.   We grew up together...children of the South Bronx!

This weekend...we...the children of the South Bronx...we were all together again.   We ate my wife’s awesome sausage & peppers.   (She grew up with them too!)   We played bid whist...as we always did years and years ago.

We drank.   We laughed...no...we cracked up!   We reminisced.   We talked about Reverend Edler G. Hawkins and how he affected/influenced our lives.   It was awesome!

We are fortunate.   We are lucky.   We are friends!