Friendship, Friendship!

Everyone needs friends. Yet in our busy world very few have true friends. Possibly many acquaintances, facebook friends, twitter followers but how many friends that one would feel would actually come when called? How many who would remember the birthday without facebook reminders? How many who care enough to ask about family and be willing to hear the bad with the good, and not just the pleasant social media posts?

All of my life I have moved frequently. It has been a great blessing to be quick at making acquaintances and having adventures. I love meeting people and hearing their stories, you learn many wonderful things. However, I believe in some ways moving often has been a drawback in truly developing the kind of friend I referred to in the first paragraph. That takes time, investment of self and willingness to be vulnerable and be comfortable with someone else’s vulnerability.

This here, folks, is HARD!

And as I’m a people watcher I believe I am not the only one that finds this difficult. Most do!

If you are reading this to find an answer….I’m sorry. I don’t have them. My only suggestions are to be willing to be uncomfortable sometimes to make friends and to be humble enough to let people love you for who you are as you are. I’m working on it.

We see people with hundreds of ‘friends’ but I have always heard that a person really only has room in their life for about half a dozen true friendships; so the people with hundreds of so called friends….has a different criteria for friendship than others.

As I wrote about the friendships of Patreece in Antique Dreams, I tried to keep all these things in consideration to let her be a real, living, breathing young woman. I even was envious of her friendship with Sarah.

That kind of friendship is rare and wonderful. Let’s all be caring and honest enough to be like these two, as well as trusting yet vulnerable. What a wonderful world it will be.