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On Friendship...
It all started so innocently.
We met as strangers, thrown together by fate.
Some of you grow up with me,
others I have only known a short while.
Some of you I have hugged constantly
over the years.
, and others I met at a time
when hugging was 'un-cool',
and it has stayed that way,
though the times have changed around us.
Some of you I have not yet met
in person. Every one of you has enriched my life.
You have helped to teach me,
to guide me on this often turning and forking road of life.
You have been with me through
the good times and the bad.
You have comforted me when I
cried,
held me when I was afraid,
and laughed with me when I was happy.
And now we are in college. And
though the distance between us is not great, it is great enough.
I am no longer afraid to reach
out and hug you, in fact I long to do it.
You had walked with me for so
long that I was afraid to venture on alone.
Yet even as I feared the dark
of night, along came others to help me on my journey,
in hopes that I would
walk with them so they need not journey on alone.
They picked up where you left
off, and now they are no longer strangers.
Who are you? You might be my
brother, my sister, my cousin, an old aquanitnce or a new one.
But first and foremost, I call
you friend.
And I miss you if you are away,
and if you are here, then I thank you for standing by my side.
And so I send you this, so that
you might know that someone, somewhere, is thinking of you,
praying for you, and loveing
you. And that person is me.
May God grant you peace and
happiness in your times of trial,
and watch over you, so that
one day we will meet again.
Friendship is a strange thing... We find ourselves telling each other the deepest details of our lives... things we don't even share with the families that raised us. But what is a friend? A confidant? A lover? A shoulder to cry on? An ear to listen? A heart to feel? A friend is all of these things and more. No matter where we met, no matter how long we've been together I call you a friend. A word so small, yet so large in feeling, a word filled with emotion, a word overflowing with LOVE. Truly great things come in small packages. Once the package of friendship has been opened, it can never be closed. It is a constant book always written... waiting to be read and enjoyed. We may have our disagreements... we may have our disappointments... we may argue... we may concern one another... but, friendship is a unique bond that lasts through all tribulations. A part of each of us goes into our friendships... our humor... our experiences... our tears, but with all it is friendship. Friendships are foundations necessary for life and love.
Friends... you and me... you
brought another friend and then there were three... we started our group...
our circle of friends... there is no beginning... there is no end.
Even though I don't speak to you all day everyday or even as often as I
would like to. You have all crossed my path of life in one way or another...
some of you I've only bumped into... some have walked a while with me...
and some of you will continue to walk with me... but don't ever think for
a second that since we aren't in constant contact that I don't think of
you all... because if it wasn't for coming across all of YOU... who knows?
I would be a completely different person and well, I'm happy with
how I've turned out so far... so, thank you.
This page is dedicated to all my friends, near and far, who always have and always will be an insipiration to me...