Friends. What would we do without them? I know I have a friend when I feel joy when I am around the person and when I can see that they have joy when they see me too. Friendship is a special gift of connection that is woven together by a mixture of love, trust, common likes and sometimes even common dislikes. I think it’s better when friends connect through the things they like rather then the things they dislike, because connecting through dislikes usually leads to gossip, while connecting through the things we

like to do leads to a lot of fun.

Friends are people who are there whenever you need them. If your crying they’ll be there to cheer you up. If you just need someone to talk too they are listening to what you have to say. And they really care, and they really listen. Friends just care about you. You are special to them and they are special to you. It’s about a special kind of love. A love that’s free of all the weirdness that other forms of love can have. Good friendship is a pure thing. It’s white in a grey world.

A good friend is hard to find, but a friendship that will last a lifetime is even harder to find. Some people seem to make friends more easily than others. Some people seem to have hundreds of friends. They brag about having literally hundreds of Facebook friends. I am not sure how you can be really good friends with more than a few people. I care more about having a few good friends that I can really know and love than having hundreds of people I barely know. I also like to spend time with my friends face to face and I am getting kind of tired of virtual Facebook friends. I want to be able to actually experience my friends in real life – to play soccer together, to run and fall down together, to eat lots of popcorn and watch lots of movies and to laugh together at the stupid stuff that just seems to be part of our life.

Not only do your friends have to act like a friend, so do you. If you’re not very nice or helpful to your friends your friendship won’t last very long. Friendship is kind of like a garden. You have to plant it and water it and sometimes you even have to weed it a little. With the application of a fertilizer of love, honesty, faithfulness and joy, friendships can grow to last a lifetime.

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