The Inconvenient Truth about Friendship

It’s not how long it lasts but the value it created even in a small period of time. As reality brings pain of losing friends you had for a long time, as hard as it hits you then you have to face it.

We all have inhibitions and fears in life. Even within our circle, there are those that we choose to tell what we feel and the struggles that we are in. There is someone we feel who is matured enough to share an open mind about our crisis.

Painful and sad – two thoughts to describe finding out that a friend who has been there for many years has left you in the middle of the crisis and has never really been there. And yes… questions followed. Was he just taking time to digest things? Is it hard to really be there for a friend and I mean be there to shed a little comfort that things are going to be ok? Was he just afraid to confront the reality with himself or is it just all a fake? Was the idea of friends through thick and thin dead?

Ironically, there are those you meet for days or months who have shown value without measuring time spent together. These are what I call true people.

We sometimes trust people because they have been there for us for years but are they really there for us? Or are they just there when they want to share a laugh? We oftentimes pass judgment not trusting people because we hardly know them. I guess the bottom line is you can never trust people unless they stood up for you.

I may be walking miles, barefoot in the desert, all that really matters is if you held tight when I stumble and walk with me till the end……