A good friend is somebody that you can pick up right where you left off.
I have one of those, in AJ.
What happened
I was traveling, in Romania, and I got a text from AJ. He was in the middle of a project, and he needed some help. He happened to be traveling as well, and was in Washington DC.
Just like we have done, hundreds of times before, a text thread, a Zoom meeting, collaborating for hours, that seemed like minutes.
We figured things out, we joked, we learned from each other.