"Just wondering why?" I wonder why it is people who claim they are your Friends and say they Love you try everyday to make your life hardier then it already is, they talk behind your back and truly do not have your best interest at heart. There seems to be no loyalty anymore, just back stabbing and people looking out for themselves only; no matter if they step on you or over you to get to the top! They can't wait for you to turn your back so they can take your happiness and dreams and tear them apart. When did this change I wonder? I remember way back when Friends would do anything to see you succeed and want the best for you, would go out of their way to make sure you reached your goals; and would stop thinking and reaching their own to make sure you achieved yours. They would have the phone by their heads at night just in case you called and needed them. Shared their darkest secrets with you and you them and both swearing to die with them, no matter what. Laugh and cry together even if their own lives weren't exactly as they planned it too be. Make time to be together, even if they didn't have a second for themselves. You would not only share in their glory, but their sorrows. Stand beside them even if you thought they were making the wrong decisions, let them make life's mistakes, and be there to pick them up when they fell. Friendship was so serious then that you not only were Friends, but went as far as to make a small slice of your own flesh in your hand and them theirs, taking it to a new level and become "Blood Sisters". Today I would not recommend doing this, just an example of the closeness of true Friendship back in the day. I have many Friends from childhood that I still keep in touch with, that I love more today then yesterday and will love them and cherish them till the day I make my way to the Pearly gates, and believe me I will. (Lets just hope there is an elevator!) And some that even though we don't speak and haven't for 10-15 years know that if I pick up the phone and call them that they will travel to the end of the Earth to be with me, and I them! I just recently called a "Blood sister" Areatha that I haven't spoke to in 15 years plus and we picked up where we left off, she was one of 4 of us that truly became Sisters and hung out tightly everyday in our teens. I put in the call because my daughter who lived with her father after 16 years of not knowing him and lived in my home town 5 1/2 hours away was having a problem with Aretha's family who might I add are a feared family back home. Neither Areatha nor my daughter knew each other and when I called I wasn't as nice as I usually am; I guess the protective mother came out in me.... Anyway, a truce was made between my daughter and her family and a reminder of how close we are and always will be! True Friendship never dies and remains the same no matter the distance or time in between! I adore you Areatha and always will cherish our Friendship! When did Friendship change? Did it go out along with Simplicity? Why is it so hard to bond and make Great Friends? Why is everyone out to get each other? What happened to being their for one another? What happens to the "Good times?" Why Negativity, when you can have happiness together? Why back stab and talk behind your so called friends back, is there no more loyalty and trust anymore? Is there no more giggling and wishing on the stars? Why compete with one another, why can't you share in ones achievements? Who do you share your hopes, dreams and laughter with? Without Friends what do we really have? Loneliness?? Daisy |