THE AE JOURNAL

One lesson I've learned growing up is that friends come as quickly as they go. True friends-real friends are the ones who stick around.

They're the ones who understand you before you give an explanation about an issue.

They're the ones who lift you up at your darkest moments, and are the ones who make you desire to become a better person.

The majority of my adult life I've lived with a free heart. A heart which greeted pain as well as happiness with the same welcoming smile. I opened new friendship and rekindled old friendship without a trace of cynicism. As I mature I find that friendships are what you make them to be. My discovery is that friendship is only alive if the two persons were benefiting from the relationship. Friendship is real. It is beautiful and the one fruitful thing that truly sustains life here on Earth.

"Humans are social creatures.If we all lived in isolation, I highly doubt that we would grow into the magnificent masterpieces we sought out from birth to become. Rekindle your friendships"

Recently in life, I have become a skeptic with certain friendships I had formed. This is partly true because I met an overwhelming series of disappointments. The type of disappointments that left you distraught while thinking to yourself, " I can't believe he or she did this? ". I've learned not to take it by heart. I've also learned to not hold it against anyone--we are all human. However, I have the ability to edit& delete people in and out my life, in order to live happily. This is a philosophy I have maintained and won't give up. By doing so I've made room for more positive relationships. With this newly adopted philosophy my friends and family grew considerably.

I am lucky to have at least one close true friend. I have a handful to be exact- one hand 1,2,3,4.. not including family. There is only one friend who I can completely let my guard down. I've known Lianna since my freshman year of undergraduate school. We got close within the span of two years I would say, when we lived together at our alma mater.


People need friends who make them want to reach for the stars!---and beyond
She is everything I would look for in the ideal friend. I trust her-

Labels: friends, friendship, happiness, life, life application