Forever Friends!

Isn't friendship wonderful!

I was thinking back of the days when friendship began in kindergarten when your idea of a good friend was the person who let you have the red crayon when all that was left was the ugly black one. 

 

In first grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to the bathroom with you and held your hand as you walked through the scary halls.  The person who shared their lunch with you when you forgot yours.  The person who sat aside of you in class.

 

In the second grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped you stand up to the class bully.  All the way through the twelfth grade....we walked to school together and we all came across many friends.  Some of which are still my friends today at age 63!

 

Friendship is a strange thing.  We find ourselves telling each other the deepest details of our lives.  Things we don't even share with our families.  But what is a friend?  A confidant? A shoulder to cry on?  An ear to listen?

A friend is all of these things and more.  No matter where we met, no matter how long we've been together....I call you a friend.  A word so small, yet so large in feeling, a word filled with emotion, a word overflowing with love. 

 

Truly great things come in small packages.  Once the package of friendship has been opened, it can never be closed.  It is a constant book always waiting to be read...and enjoyed.  Friendship is a unique bond that lasts through all tribulations.  I guess when we all started our group, our circle of friends, there is no beginning...there is no end.

 

A part of each of us goes into our friendships, our humor, our experiences, our tears.  Friendships are foundations necessary for life and love.  Friends like you and me.  You brought another friend and then there were three.   Isn't it amazing how we accumulate friends!

 

Even though I don't speak to my friends from up north everyday...or even as often as I would like to, don't ever think for a second that since we aren't in constant contact....that I don't think of you all.  Old friends are the besties for sure!

 

Then there are what I call my "Faceless Friends".  We sit and we type and we stare at our screens....I have to wonder sometimes what this possibly means.  I guess we do form some sort of friendship via the computer.  Even though it is crazy, the truth still remains that these people are "Friends without Faces" with odd little screennames! 

 

Strange, I wonder why we share the thoughts in our mind with those we can't see as though we were blind especially on the online dating sites!  Yes, I have to admit during my lonely evenings by myself....I'm grateful for my "Faceless Friends" via the "puter"! 

 

Before I close this entry, I would like all of you to know that Dora (DiBartolomeo) Vickery is still in critial condition at the Brockton Hospital  508-941-6282 (direct line to her hospital room)

 

Let's lift her spirits by sending along a card.

 

Dora Vickery

33 Briggs Lane

Hanover, MA 02339

 

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