The best gift I received in the last year was learning to fully appreciate how truly wonderful my friends are. To know how damn lucky I really am in this department.

On the first day of my separation, my friend, a man I have known since I was 17, someone who knows me very well, asked if I wanted to talk to his partner’s sister, who was also going through a divorce. I had met her a few times over the last 15 years so this wasn’t weird. She got on the call with me right away when I said yes. She had been going through her own yearlong messy divorce and had moved across the country to escape that marriage.

She would spend the next year being a rock for me. She would accept my many texts every day, some that just said, “I am sad” and would respond gloriously in just the right way I needed.

She also would send me memes all the time. Uplifting motivational memes about wronged women or strength or not giving up or turning into a butterfly, that kinda of stuff.

Now that it has been a year and we are both divorced, the memes have shifted some— in flow with less “I am sad” texts. This week she sent me a series of them, funnier than the usual ones. More focused on dating and relationships, because we are both more open to this now.

If you had asked me a year ago when I thought I would date again, I would have told you never. Never ever ever. I will still tell you that I will never marry legally again, but I am becoming more open to the idea of finding a true partner. I tell you all this because I really want to show you the evolution of these memes. Picture me, a little way down the line, on this dating journey portrayed in these memes. Have a good laugh.

Art can come in all forms. And come to us when we most need it, just like a good friend.

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