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Friends Like TheseThroughout life we encounter a handful of people we come to know as friends. At first glance we don't immediately think, "hey, this person will stick with us forever!" No, not really. We meet someone and the first thought that comes to our head is "can we trust this individual?"
We can't possibly look into our future and discover if this individual will stab us in the back or have our back in dire times, no, if we could, a lot of wars could be stopped, hell, even the most important ones--the wars within ourselves. Sometimes we just have to strap on for the wild ride and play with the hand that life has dealt us with. Now whether or not this hand contains important characters, it's up to us to decide. Whether it might be an individual who we meet in high school and remains with us until our dying age, or whether it's an individual you met at work and years later becomes a stranger in the street. We don't know. We can't possibly know. All we can do is trust. Trust that everything falls in place like it's suppose to. But what happens when we lie, or when they lie? What happens when the illusion that we've created of being best of buddies disappear into fucking oblivion by one single moment that turns the tides against us? Hahahaha. What happens then ah? We don't know, no, of course not, how can we fucking know something when it happens unexpectedly and out of the fucking blue? We think we know someone and the next thing that occurs is that the image that we've created in our minds about this person is shattered in a million pieces! |
But who are we kidding? We've seen plenty of characters come and go through our lives, haven't we? Yes, we have. People come and go, people! Come on! Of course, why wouldn't they? That's how life works. We don't need everyone we meet in our lives, do we? No, of course. But, but hold on, hold on! There are important ones! Yes. Of course. Those that keep you grounded, keep you human. Those who are good inside, deeply good, unbelievably positively a good, if not healthy, influence in your life! Those, those friends we keep, we need to keep, don't we? Yes, we need to stay with them, stay. Stay!
Who We Are |
In order to accept a person into our lives we first have to come to the decision that who we are is okay with them; that the person we embrace each day is someone that they can accept into their lives, so in order to maintain a friendship, a few truths must be accepted. This is one of them. Without acceptance, there are lies, with lies, there is no trust. Without trust, it is not a true friendship. No. No, no it can't be! It then becomes a one-sided friendship! A lie! Pretend!
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Our History |
The hardest part of a friendship and maintaining a friendship is knowing that eventually our history will bleed through the pages that is our life. And during this spectacularly huge moment, we have to choose to share it with the person that is now our friend. The question we must ask ourselves, yes, is whether or not this friend is ready to listen to our history. To learn our history. To become part of our history in the story of our lives. Each character we meet, they come and they go, but few choose to stay, and some stay for legitimate reasons.
Because they can understand our history. They can accept it. They can learn from it. They can ACCEPT who we are. The whole picture. |