Friendship

They come in all shapes and sizes.

They come straight out of no where.

Some come right at the beginning. Others you meet along the way.

Some last a life time. Others just seem like a speck on the page you call your life.

Some make perfect sense. Others are pure accident.

They shape who you become.

They share the same interests as you, and even introduce you to new ones.

They are the best but if companionship you can ask for.

Doesn’t matter who they are, how they get there, or when they leave… They are your friends. You love them just the same.

It is the ones you call “best”, that you have to look out for. Those are the ones that get a piece of your heart. A piece you will never get back. They become so engrained in your life that you could never imagine going on without them. If they do leave, they take that piece of you with them….

I do not think they mean too… I think it is all part of loving someone to the fullest. Whether it is a friend you have grown up with your whole life, who drifts away in high school. Or someone you met in college, you thought would be there for a life time. You do not hold back. You do not go into that friendship waiting for the other shoe to drop. You go in with your heart on your sleeve and you trust in your hand.

But then you have the friends that you know are only in your life for a short season. You do not expect to look back after five or even ten years and reminisce about the fun you guys used to have. Not together at least. These are the friends who rent a spot in your heart. When you grow apart from them, it does not hurt as much because you knew. You knew somewhere deep inside that it would end eventually.

Lastly, but surely not the least, and the friends we consider acquaintances. These are those we see from day to day. We speak to them on a polite manor. We may even find that we like them to some degree. However, these are the friendships that never leave the office, school, or church buildings. We may speak freely with them, but they are never let into our deeps levels of caring. These are the friends that we keep are arms length.

Ah… but when those old friends come back around.. the ones that drifted off.. the ones you thought you had lost forever.. THAT. That is both a wonderful and terrifying experience all together.

On one hand you are happy. Ecstatic even. Your friend is back in your life. This person you chose to love at one time has found their way back to you. Maybe. Just maybe you can start again.

On the other hand, you are scared that things may not work out, yet again. Maybe they have not forgiven you for things in your past. Maybe they simply need to ask some questions that only you can answer. Maybe it was just a fluke, the two of you running into each other.

Whoever they are.

Wherever they are.

Whenever they are.

Here is to them! Here is to the people that help us grow. Both good and bad. Here is to those that have the power to both break and heal our hearts. Here is to those that make us both laugh and cry. Here is to those that know just what buttons to press, and when to press them.

Here is to the ones we love without condition.

Here is those that prove, family is not just born. It is made!

Here is to the ones we love!

Here is to those we call our friends!

FRIENDSHIP: The emontions, conduct, and trust between friends (two people that share a bond that is presumably not easily broken).