I thought I better start working on what I am going to write for writers group this week.
Friends
by Christine Cosser
When I was a young girl I remember the song make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and one is gold. Today I made a new friend. I actually made three new friends as I count her dogs Tillie and Micky. I love dogs and they love me.
I also prayed for an old friend today. Yes, I prayed for a friend I haven’t talked to in 20 years, but who I still love and hold in my heart as a dear friend, though at the same time I am still angry at him. I prayed that we would be able to talk things through and forgive each other for the pain we caused each other. I am a Pollyanna in that I see the best in the people who I allow in my heart, and I will never give up hoping that someday this person will see the truth and not judge me so harshly but understand me to the point he can see the good in me. Yet, I live in the reality that chances are we will never talk things through and end things on a good note.
So today I am thinking of that song of childhood of friendship and as I allow a new friend in my heart, I still treasure an old friends I haven’t see in years. True friendship is very rare and when you find it cherish it.
Friends come in and out of our lives. Some move away and so we don’t see them or talk to them as much as we once did, but they are still our friends in our hearts. I would still be there for them if they ever needed help in any way. We still have the memories of the good times we shared and the smiles we shared with each other. We still have the laughter and the joy of being together.
Friends are not always going to agree on every single issue, but you still love them as a friend and accept them where they are. True friends learn to disagree, but to still keep the friendship. I guess the most important part of being a true friend to someone is to treat them the way you want to be treated. If we are willing to work at being the kind of friend we want others to be to us, than we shall know true friendship in our lives. Forgiving each other for our many failures is also very important to make a friendship last over the years.
To all the friends I have had over the years, new and old, I have never forgotten you and hold the memories that we shared in my heart.
