This is so cool… I was just thinking about how much I’ve come to know and adore so many of you, and “POOF!” It’s National “Pretend It’s National Friendship Week” Week.
So many people have come and gone from my life over the years, but a handful are still around. I’ve held fast to an obviously flawed theory for a long time now, because I like the way that it makes me feel. I’ve wondered and believed, off and on, that before any of us were here, we were somewhere else… and some of us were in that somewhere else together. And that is why when you meet certain people you just click. You know that you are supposed to know them and feel that you’ve been put together for a reason. In fact, I think that as much as is possible in a still-not-small world, we’re drawn back to our groups without realizing it at the time. Wouldn’t it be nice… and wouldn’t it make sense… if at the end of the day we realize that this is one of those reunions? Sitting on the limb, maybe… but think about it.
That said, I really do appreciate you guys. You make me laugh, you make me think, you make me wonder what kind of pie you’ll be baking when I come to see you… I’m so glad that you’re here.
These are some of my favorite things that other people have written about friendship…
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them."
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) French writer.
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
-William Arthur Ward
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- ?
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
- Dave Matthews Band
"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'til I'm going to need somebody to lean on."
- "Lean On Me"
"You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me."
- Randy Newman
And finally…
Loyalty
He may be six kinds of a liar,
He may be ten kinds of a fool,
He may be a wicked highflyer
Beyond any reason or rule;
There may be a shadow above him
Of ruin and woes to impend,
And I may not respect, but I love him,
Because-well, because he's my friend.
I know he has faults by the billion,
But his faults are a portion of him;
I know that his record's vermilion,
And he's far from the sweet Seraphim;
But he's always been square with yours truly,
Ready to give or to lend,
And if he is wild and unruly,
I like him-because he's my friend.
I criticize him but I do it
In just a frank, comradely key,
And back-biting gossips will rue it
If ever they knock him to me!
I never make diagrams of him,
No maps of his soul have I penned;
I don't analyze- just love him,
Because-well, because he's my friend.
~Berton Braley
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