Friends.

A few weeks ago, my Dad met up with a friend of his, one he only sees every 6 months and sometimes even less. But they're still best friends. When they meet, it's like not a minute has passed and they're best friends again as they always have been.

My university asked, "which three words would your best friend use to describe you?" I text five different friends of mine and each of them said "loyal". Loyal, funny, kind, caring, trustworthy, talented, honest, "spur of the moment kind of girl" (sp (I think she was lookign for the word spontaneous) and strong were the different variations. Considering I could've had 15 different adjectives and everyone single person said loyal, I think I'm loyal! They make me smile so much.
I'm the luckiest person in the world when it comes to the people who I love that love me.
Someone I care about (more than I think he'll ever know who might have a blog dedicated to him very soon), when he was asking what was wrong and being a wonderful friend to me once said "how many people do you have that genuiely care about you?" I thought about it for a second and I could think of ten people of the top of my head that I know what be there for me at the drop of a hat if I needed it. I reolied, "I'm lucky in that aspect." I know I am. My family and friends are wonderful. I'll never forget it.

It makes me wonder about friendships. In the past, I've had friendships that I thought would latst forever, we'd be best friends forever and I'd never need anyone else. Then we grew up, went our seperate ways - to different senior schools or we met new friends. Then at senior school I made some better friends. Friends that I still have now, that have been by my side throught the good and the bad for years and I can see in my future as being the ones there for me.
We're getting older, becoming adults, becoming our own people who can make our own desicions. We can live where with want with whom we want. We want study what we want and do what we want. We can love who we want and spend our time with whomever we please.
The people I thought I'd have by my side my whole life may not be. I may have been mistaken by some of them. And though I would never doubt their love and friendship for one second, I can see them slipping away. I know they'll always be there if I needed them, but other people and other things become more important and we learn to live without each other. Some are slipping, but there are the special few who are by my side who I don't think I will ever be mistaken about.

As for these special few, as we've gotten older, although we've stayed best friends, the past couple of years one thing became more important. Love.
Now, although I still have my best friends, they all have their partner, a loved one who I've become great friends with too and I'm one hundred per cent happy for my best friends as they've found love.

Remember old friends, never forget the friends you had, have and always will have. Remember that you can never have too many friends. To have a friend you need to be a friend. There will always be people in the future, friends that you haven't even met yet.
I'll always remember my friends. Old and new.

"Understand that friends come and go, but to the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle. The older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young."

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