Friendship...

I've had friendships all my life, everybody has. It's something that everybody needs to make them feel good and to give them support. Family is great and all, but I seriously share more with my friends than ever with my family. Almost never though is every friendship perfect. Friendship is not meant to be easy.

I've learned a lot about my friends and friendship in general this past year.

I've learned a friendship can't be repaired in one night
Nor can it be made...
but it can so easily be broken in that same amount of time.

I've learned of the dangers of sharing too much with one friend
and not enough with another.

I've learned that some friends want you to bend over backward to meet their needs
and make them happy
but others get angry if you strive too hard.

I have few great friendships
and sometimes it feels like I have not one
but always the same people come back in the end.

after the rifts of life have tossed them a few times over the ocean.

or after the real world bit them in the ass.

That is a friendship.

You don't always have to get along, and you won't.

You just need something to come back to.

I hope I always have something to come back to, and that I don't lose that in college. Without my friends, oldest to newest, I just might have taken a flight out of an office building window a year and a half ago.

NEVER give up the fight because it is worth it in the end.