A Friend Indeed...

Today I was thinking about friendship and what it means to be a friend. And what I concluded is that a true friend simply allows you to BE...Be who you ARE, faults and all...They don't judge you, or try to change you into a mirror image or version of themselves. And they don't run away at the first sign of trouble. Nor do they consider you merely a convenience. Or a possible source of something they might need from time to time.

When you confide and trust in them they store up your confidences in a vault of golden silence, never allowing anyone to enter the inner sanctum of that sacred place. And when there are no words left to be shared, they simply hold your hand and glance with you in the same direction.

Just as you depend on the ground to not cave in when you stand upon it, so should you be able to count on a friend to be the legs upon which you stand, never forgetting that friendship is a two way street and that to have a friend you must also be one. And if it means that the number of true friends you have, being equal to the time you invest in  true friendship is quite small, then so be it. Because honestly, it is far better to have one friend with those qualities than ten of the watered down version.