Friendship is such a powerful thing, it can control our actions and dictate our emotions, it can grow to consume our lives or leave us broken. Friendship, it�s a job really. I have tried for so many years to think of it as nothing more then just a hobby, but if you leave friendship untended it will die, its not something you can do now and then or on the weekends, it�s a fulltime job.
One must enter into a friendship knowing this, and be prepared to give there all and put everything that they are into a friendship if it is to ever become anything great. I do not say this to scare anyone just I went into many friendships unprepared to do this and because of that I have lost many great people in my life, and gained very few real friends.
Real friends, what is a real friend you might ask, to put it simply a real friend in my opinion is a person that no matter what will not give up on you, ask nothing of you other then to be a friend to them, and is there for you when they can be in a time of need. If you get a real friend do not let go, fight with everything you have to keep them, because in the end they are the only thing that makes our lives seem worth living sometimes, and are the only ones who will hold our heads up and wipe away the tears when it seem there is nothing worth living for. Real friends are the rain and the sunshine they are the promise and the secret, all in one.
Fake friends, if there is a real friend then there must be a fake friend, you cannot have one without the other. Fake friends, well they are what they sound like and the opposite of a real friend. Fake friends use you to get something and then toss you aside, lead you to believe they care about you without ever doing so, fake friends will get you into more trouble and heart break then you can handle and lead you down the dark road of depression faster then you think possible. If you have a friend who seems to put no effort into keeping your friendship going, then drop them, why should you do all the work if that person cares so little if you are there or not.
In the end I hope that most of us know more real friends then fake ones, but I realize that we all must make are own decisions and create our own paths in life, along the way everyone will get hurt no matter how hard you try, its just a matter of not giving up and pushing on really. Took me a long time to learn that, but now that I know it, I will not soon forget where I learned it from, and I will not neglect to appreciate my real friends again.
I hope you can learn and do the same.
