Just Thoughts and Nothing Else

Wow, time away. I can't believe after all the Holidays I'm going to get a chance to get away with a girlfriend I've had since I'm in 7th Grade! What a great invitation to receive from her and her husband.

Friends are people of many walks of life. They come to you at different times in your life and each one makes an impression on your heart. Someway, somehow, each one is so different. Each one is unique in their own way. Each one although different made a friend of you. How is it that one person is blessed to have so many friends of different personalities ? How did you get so lucky you say to yourself.

I like to think sometimes about the differences in my own friends. Such different personalities and I couldn't love any one of them any better than the other because I love them for their differences.

Some friends are friends of solice. Some friends are friends that you find you can tell funny off color jokes with and others you can't. Some friends like coffee and some tea. Some friends like to drink nothing but soda pop and others milk????
Some friends you tell secrets too that you tell no others and some you just can't tell anything that you want to be kept private. Some friends you laugh uncontrollably with and others you are serious and business like. Some friends are loyal and true to you and others are not.
Some friends are women and some men, they come in many different sizes and shapes and they are happy or maybe they are sad, but when you have friends that you can count on through thick and thin, good or bad, you've got the best friends of all.

Friends are friends when they have made a difference in your life in some small way that proves to be a positive one. If they make you feel good and give you a hug when you need one and always give you a smile every chance they get, they are the best of friends. Then when your friends are there for you in your times of need, they are the best friends of all.

You might have met them 40 years ago or you might have met them yesterday, but treat them all with dignity, respect and love and you will have the best that your heart can hold.
If sometimes they don't have time for you and you think "well, it's not my turn to call, I called them last", remember that you may get days like that too and you surely wouldn't want them to hold that against you and loose a great friend just because of your silly principles.

In life we give and take. In life we win and loose.
So just remember not to take from a friend what you cannot give,
and never loose a friend when you've already won their hearts.

Cherish them and never forget to tell them you love them, because they will be there for you someday when you are all sitting around in a retirement community talking about the lives you had! And don't forget, tomorrow you can talk about the same thing over again and no one will notice because you all forgot what anyone said yesterday, but they never forgot you!!!!