Reverb10 for today:
December 16 – Friendship How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst? (Author: Martha Mihalick)
A friend is some1 who knows the song of ur heart & sings it bac 2 u when uve lost ur way
I can’t point to any one person who changed my perception of what friends are in this past year. But I can tell you one thing that’s really changed my perception of people and what friendship is. Facebook.
If you were to look at my Friends list on Facebook, you would see a list of people I know through various venues – work, high school, organizations I work with. While that’s all good and well, if you started asking me about each of these people, I don’t know how “deep,” I could get in terms of knowledge. I could give you some basic details about each of them but overall that’s it. The deep down stuff where you know you can depend on them no matter what, I don’t think I could count on them for that.
I can count on one hand the people in my circle who live up to what RevRun calls a friend. My friend Lisa whom I ‘ve been friends with since college. We’ve been through a lot together over the last 25 years. My friend John who I’ve also known from college – it doesn’t matter that sometimes we don’t talk to each for awhile. When he’s in Texas or I’m in Colorado, we pick up where we left off.
R is probably now my best friend, he’s the one who tells me I can do anything and who encourages me to be a better person. The one thing he reminds me about all the time is that “I’m born complete and that I should not judge myself against others.” And occassionally, he arrives in his silvery grey Chevy Caprice steed and rescues his ill girlfriend damsel in distress. I hope I encourage him as much as he encourages me. And I’m glad that in the grand scheme of things we spend WAY more time laughing and cutting up with each other and loving each other than we do fighting.
MaryBeth Smith’s post on on friendship sums it up far more eloquently than I have. I too need to broaden my group of “trusties” in 2011.
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