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Old Friends

I know I've talked about friendship before, but I woke up thinking about friends that are no longer in my life - friends that I truly enjoyed, but was too young to appreciate.

I have always prided myself as being a good friend, but maybe I wasn't when I was younger. With age I have the people that I love in my life no matter how others may feel. I think when I was young I worried too much about everyone getting along and liking each other, so at times people were excluded. I don't worry about who gets along anymore. My friends and I make an effort to know and embrace the people that are currently important in each others lives. I've gone to many functions where my friend is the only person that I'm close to, but I'm there to support her and her friends. So don't dismiss the people that your friend loves.
Also, I had friends that we talked or did something daily... that takes a lot of time and work to maintain. The reality is, time is precious to each of us, so I now have time limitations with my friends. We don't allow the reality of our personal time to limit our friendship. Today I also have the type of friends that we respect and appreciate each others differences. I think when you're young you expect your friends to be clones of you, and when you see change in them it isn't always embraced. You have to allow your friend to evolve. So love your friends for who they are, and cherish the times that you have together.

Although I miss some of my old friendships, I am very thankful for the ones that I have today. In fact, I'm hoping they are the friends that I grow old with.

"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."
- Anais Nin

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"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
                                                                    



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