My Grandfather used to tell my mother that a man may have many acquaintances, but was considered lucky if he had one true friend in life. I have to wonder how accurate that statement is.
Websters dictionary gives this definition for friend: one attached to another by affection or esteem.
Facebook would say that it's someone who knows everything about you and likes you anyway.
Is it possible in this life, that there is no such thing as one true friend? But instead that the universe sends people into our lives as our friends when we need them most? Many of the people I grew up with, I don't speak with any more. Not out of malice or anger, but as we grew we found that we had nothing in common. But there are those who have a special place in my heart, as soul friends. I have kept in contact with these special people.
I have my Rock friend, who I have known since I was a child. We keep track of each other through social media. One of my friends and I lost contact after high school, but have managed to get back in touch after many years. He has always been the Calm one. One person I met when I was barely twenty one, whom I still speak with fourteen years later, is my Fire friend. Others I met in college and although we have all moved on with our lives, we still consider each other dear friends, such as my Fashion Forward friend and my Purple friend. In Twin I found my Enthusiastic friend, and here in Elko, I have made yet another who is Alive.
My point is this: through our lives, people come and go but each is brought to us at the time we need them most, or when they need us the most. And out of all of the people we meet during our lives, there is at least one who will stick out, one who calls to us in a way that we can automatically recognize them as one of our own. Our true friends. Just like the tides ebb and flow, so does the times for those who come into our lives.
Thank you all for being my soul friends.
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