Friends

Today was a day filled with friends! I started my day out by watching an ambulance come and take my neighbor lady to the hospital. She looked ok, so no worries there. I was slightly confused as to why an ambulance pulled up in front of my house. I thought to myself, "I didn't order this". For a moment, they looked like they were coming to my door, but then they went to the neighbor's place. I was a little late for lunch with my friend, but she understood. We had a lovely time catching up and just chatting before she had to head into work. Then I came home and chatted with another friend for a while, getting each other caught up on the gossip of each other's lives. After that, I took a little snooze with Easter while we waited for ANOTHER friend to get off work so that we could share dinner. She came over, we ate, watched Teen Mom, I cried again, we talked some more, and then it was time for bed for the both of us. 

It was a day to reflect on friends and friendship. It really is a relationship that needs to be nurtured like any other reship you would have with a significant other. It's a 2-way street with give and take on both parts. When one person does all the giving, and the other does all the taking, the relationship fails. I care a great deal about my friends and consider them more like the family you get to choose. I would go to the ends of the earth for my friends because I know they'd do the same for me. But it has happened a time or 2 before, where I have bent over backwards for people, and they used our friendship for their own personal gain. I have quickly learned that I don't need those kind of "friends" in my life. It DOES make me appreciate and love the friends that I do have, and hold them even closer to my heart. Thank you to those wonderful people that are always there for me and appreciate the friendship I have to give.

How appropriate that as I sit here writing this, and episode of Friends is playing in the background. Doesn't get much better than that!!