Friendship

Hello!

Who are your friends? Who are the people you can count on? I full heartedly believe that we should all have friends. Friends can be anyone, your siblings, people from school, work, neighbors, etc. We all have those people who we call friends but they are more an arm distant friend or acquaintance. Those are great to have but I am referencing that one specific type of friend. The friend that knows everything about you. The friend who knows all the dirt, the secrets, and shares the good/bad/ugly. We all deserve to have someone who can be that for us.

Something that was hard for me to understand was that friends can come and go. They can also still be your friends but they are also allowed to have different friends or even closer friendships with other people. I grew up having a really great friend group. A friend group that still gets together once a year. I could not be more proud of our group. We all have accomplished so many things in life. Some are married, some are starting a family, some are kicking butt in their careers. We will forever be the “Chapstick” girlies (inside joke). When we first started to get together, I got jealous of the people they were talking about. The people that knew them more or were closer to them, than I was. As the years went on I started to develop that friendship with other people and realized its the season of life I am in. Friends come and go, friends meet up once a year and feel like we never left, and some stay strong the whole time and that is okay.

I have this one friend who I met later in life during college. I had heard from multiple people that the friends you make in college are different than the ones you make in high school. That is so true. I have this one friend who is my best friend. She knows more about me than anyone else. We graduated from college and we have our own lives now but we still make a point to see each other or talk. We both are so busy that we will have one continued conversation but it will take forever to finish it because we take a week to respond to each other. Even though it takes forever to hear back from each other, we both know that we are there for each other no matter what. We try to get food or drinks multiple times a year, still feels like we never have enough time.

These people are all my friends. We have different memories but we still are connected and still love each other. I am so thankful that God put these women in my life and still allows us to be in each others lives. I miss them so much but I know if I ever needed anything, any one of them would be there!

Who are your friends? Have you reached out to them lately?

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