Friends

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends. A friend is one who is attached to another by affection, one who entertains another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which leads the person to desire company and to seek happiness and prosperity. In short, a friend is an attendant, a companion, a favorer. It is a term of salutation.

At the end of life, we can count at least two people who are true friends willing to do anything for us at a drop of a hat, who stand ready when we are hurting to need help, we are indeed fortunate. (at this point I am trying to picture in my mind, who these 2 people are in my life, and still trying to measure if I have even 2 at this moment) We can talk with friends about every facet of life - our joy, trials, triumph, tragedies, hopes, wants, and needs. We can make ourselves vulnerable to them knowing they will always think and act in our best interest.

Since friends and friendships are so valuable, how can we acquire more? What I realized is that if you go out in life looking for friends, they will be hard to find. In you go out in life striving to be a friend, you will find them everywhere. Though more than once, I THOUGHT I had found good friends only short lived to know that they end up distancing themselves for what they claim as valid reasons.... or simply too scared that things may get deeper than what it should be. Its sad to accept this but it takes 2 hands to clap and the effort of both parties to make a friendship solid.

A man should keep his friendship in constant repair (which I did try in most occasions by calling up to say hi regularly - though always taken as intrusive), therefore I assume if we try to at least follow all the above, I suppose we will seldom be lonely......