How many friends do you have? I mean really good friends. Friends that you can call any time day or night for any reason. Friends that you don’t see very often, but when you do, it seems like you’ve never been apart? The type of friend that’s just as crazy or maybe even slightly crazier than you? The friend who simply accepts you for who who are, with all your little quirks and idiosycracies?
You do have a friend or two like that, right?
What is it that draws us to some people but not others?
I think humans are “pack animals”. We weren’t meant to be alone. Heck, look back to the beginning – God created the heavens, earth, animals, plants and gave Adam dominion over all of it. But you know what, Adam wasn’t happy until God created Eve.
I need you. You need me. We need each other. It’s just that simple.
Friends are there to pick you up when you’re down. Friends are there to celebrate the good, the great, and the fantastic. Friends are there when times are tough – like when you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and you simply want to quit.
Friends are amazing. They do all of that for us and ask for nothing in return…except maybe that you do the same for them; which of course you’d do without thinking. Why? Because that’s what friends do!
There’s no class for learning how to be a friend. You don’t have to be “certified”. Friendship seems to be an organic “thing” that “just happens” and changes over time as our lives change, as we learn, grow and mature.
That’s why it’s possible to “outgrow a friendship”. We’ve all been there at some point. We start wondering why we’re still friends with so-and-so because “we’re just so different now”.
That’s ok. Friends will come in and out of your life as needed, for undetermined lengths of time, because “at that moment” they had something that you needed or vice versa. It all seems totally crazy, but it’s true!
That’s what friends do.
Period.
Gotta love that!
Friends. Who needs ’em?
Every single one of us, that’s who.
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