Friends…

Some people take the word friend lightly. To them, a friend is someone you can follow on twitter, add on facebook, multiply and even friendster. To some, friends are people who you have small conversations with…but friends are much more than that.

Friends are friends till the very end. No matter what goes between them, they’ll always be friends. Though friends may fight and not speak to one another for years and years…but deep down, they know they’re friends.

Friends are funny things actually. They make their friends’ problems their own. They make their successes, their own successes; their failures, their failures as well. Whatever your friend achieves, you achieve as well.

Friends are the type of people who’d ask you how you’re feeling when you’re sick. They’re the type of people that would drive to wherever you are in the middle of the night, just to sit next to you and stare into space. Friends are the type of people who, when they find out you’re sad…drive up to your house with a cooler filled with beer. Friends are the type of people you could sit and talk about anything and everything with…something profound like the meaning of life, or even just where butterflies go when it rains.

But what matters most in a friendship…is how you treat it. You care for it…like a baby, a puppy, or something very dear to you…it’ll grow and grow into a mighty red oak tree. However, if you treat it badly…it’ll just wither up and die.

I have a friend. She’s having problems right now and thinking about doing something rash. But I made a promise to her 2 years ago…where if one of us leaves; we don’t leave the other one behind. Both go, or no one goes. And now…she’s thinking about leaving…and I’d leave with her. I honestly will. We’re buddies, friends…who won’t leave each other behind at the first sign of danger. We’ll stick to each other like glue.

Sometimes, friends do rash things like that. Whether it be resigning just like that…or even just driving 2 hours through traffic to deliver you food when you’re not feeling well. Or even doing something incredibly stupid and humiliating like play dance dance revolution with the whole world watching.

Friends don’t care if something makes them look stupid…as long as it’s important to that friend of theirs, they’d do it. No questions asked…though sometimes, it takes a bottle or two to do the trick.

Friends are friends no matter what. Through thick and thin, during the best of times and even the worst of times. When the shit hits the fan, or when the day is as beautiful as your smile…your friend(s) would be right there with you…till the very end.

This is dedicated to two people…you guess who you are.