WANTED: Good Friends
ive always been a believer in quality over quantity. having a lot of friends has never been my domain, regardless of knowing a lot of individuals, few i extend the classification of “friend” much less “good friend”.
more and more i realize these “good friends” i have i barely ever spend time with. either due to physical distance or time, i start to wonder what a good friend really is. i have acquaintances who i would casually call “friend” out of respect, but they know nothing about me or what they do know is very minute and superficial. i have acquaintances i see more than i do my “friends”, but there is nothing about them that makes me feel the same camaraderie as i do with others.
then there are those who were good friends and have simply retained that classification just because of time, history and loyalty. I start to wonder if they even consider me a friend or if ive just become an acquaintance or someone from their past.
though i have learned that good friends in my past remain ppl i care for, they don’t really contribute to my life much these days. i miss having a good handful of really good friends i could count on and just spend time with as i did in the past. i miss my sister.
perhaps the hardest reality was that for so long, my close circle of friends i left back home in Hawaii have become.. strangers. while i tried several times to reach out and spend time with them, i found they were less than interested.
permanence is an illusion. so are the ties that bind.
You need more blog entries. Otherwise friends like me have no idea what’s going on in your life. Or does that make me an acquaintence?
yah ive been really bad about staying current with the blog. i wish more of my friends would blog. sometimes i kinda just stop because im not sure if anyone other than me actually reads this thing!
youre definitely far more than an aquaintence to me russ! youre definitely someone id consider a good friend. we dont talk much these days. i miss our little chats. maybe its my fault for not playing wow.
well, I’ll be your friend and you can be mine