In the last few months I have been rather sad. It has become obvious that one of my closest friendships has deteriorated. Although I'm not sure you can label a reason, I think it is just a drifting away. Losing a friend is one of the worst feelings ever. I do believe though that in different seasons of life, different people are in your life for a reason. I'm not lucky enough to have a best friend from birth. However, I have been blessed to have had several best friends throughout my lifetime. Even though we aren't close now, I still look back with positive thoughts and memories of them. They will always have a special place in my heart.
I'm not a person that needs lots of friends. I'm not that good at keeping in touch anyway so it is probably a good thing :) I am married to a wonderful friend. He is also my rock. I love traveling through life with him by my side. He balances me out often times and I think I do the same for him. My mom and I have a great friendship and she can be the tough love friend that I need and the biggest supporter of me. Those two are my best of the best friends I have. I think one thing I have learned about friendship from them is that both of them can be the people who annoy me the most, and I can be the same to them. But at the end of the day, we can get over it and the love we have for each other surpasses the anger. In high school and college, my two closest girlfriends and I had completely different views on most everything. We were able to set that aside and just enjoy each other. In my opinion, that is what a friendship should be. You should make allowances for one another. See the other person as Jesus would see them as my Grandma would say.
I have several other good friends. When I was younger I used to say that God was my best friend and then I have 27 close friends :P I never wanted to hurt anyone by saying someone was my best friend even though in my mind I probably had one. We have been talking with Anna about how she can have several best friends. She is such a social butterfly that I'm sure if she had Facebook she would be the one to have thousands of friends :P When we go to church, more people say hi to her than me!
My mom and I were talking the other day about best friends. We chatted about what we would want in a best friend and how it is lonely if you don't have one. I want to know about other people's best friends. Have you had them for a long time? What makes them your best friend? What does it mean to be a friend?
