Friends Of Another Kind

December 10, 2006 | Category: Reflections & Musings

“The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.”

If I could have one thing in the world would be a great family, close relatives and plenty of good friends. I wouldn’t say my family is great, whose family doesn’t have problems but I love my family; very much. My relatives? I’ll just leave it at that, although I love my cousins to bits just because we close, very. Friends. What can I say about my friends? I have plenty but when it comes to loyal and true friend, I have only a handful.

I have friends whom I’ve known since my very much younger days. One in particular I’ve known for 28 years; yes that’s a lot of years of hardship, arguments and good memories. I must say I’m lucky to have such tremendous friends, even though they’re only a handful. The chemistry between us is unique, something that I never thought I’d ever have. It’s like an unspoken rule. There are friends whom I’ve hardly kept in touch but once we meet we’re inseparable. We catch up on good and bad times. We talk about each others life and whatever that holds for us in future.

We can depend on each other when we’re in need of someone to just listen and without any prejudice not judged you if you did something sinful; and that to me is very precious. How many of you dare say that you have that?

Over the years I have made a great deal of friends but I ought to say, friends I’ve known since school days be it in junior high, high school or college, are the best. I’m not saying that friends I’ve made at work or through friends aren’t are as good; it’s just that the experiences and memories are different. I really treasure all my friends and never in a million years I would betray them in any way.

If life would have it, I would love to be close to every single one of them but somehow it isn’t like that. I am grateful of the friends I have right now and I’d never want anything to change. I’m gratified of the new friends I’ve made and I still want to make more new friends and hopefully have special memories I can tell my children or grandchildren of the awesome friends I have in time to come.

These handful bunch of friends I have right now mean a great deal to me. If at any given moment that someone tries to hurt them, you’ll have to deal with me first. You know who you are (if you don’t you’ll get a smack from me eventually) and I may never say or show it but I want you to know I love you to bits even though sometimes you can a pain in my ass.

“Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for listening. Thank you for the memories. But most of all, thank you for being my friend. Now you know how much you mean to me.”

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