Friends and Family
My friends have been amazing lately and I’m constantly in awe of just how much we take care of each other despite sometimes having very different lives.
There are people who we meet in this world and bond with very deeply. Because we are at the same place in our lives at the same time and we speak the same “language”, friendship comes easy. But over time our individual lives change and thus those friendships change. We are no longer in the same place, our lifestyles change or we may learn new languages. Some of those people we loose touch with. But for some reason there are those we still feel bonded to and we still care very deeply for. It’s never forced - it just is.
I think this is why I compare my friends to family. Because your family may not always understand you. They may not always relate and yet they still love you completely, accept you and support you no matter how much distance or how much you change. While my parents wouldn’t make the same decisions I have made, they are still proud of the the choices I have made and the path that I walk and support me through everything. This is how I feel about the people who I have had in my life since graduating college (plus Bob!). This is what it means to me to call my friends my family. Knowing that I may not be their closest friend or they mine in this moment of time, knowing that we may not touch base often or spend much time together sometimes, but we’d still drop everything and be there to cover each other with love. That I feel so emotionally connected that I share such pride in their accomplishments, wail such tears in their sorrow, dance with such joy in their honor. I do not claim to understand why or how this happens, I only know that it is. That these are my brothers and sisters in spirit.
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