Friends are supposed to be the family you choose, the wine that comes to life as grapes ferment, the yin, and the yang, but how do you define friendship?
Sometimes you meet someone and instantly click with them; you feel at ease with them. You don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything as if you've known them your entire life. And occasionally, you meet someone even if you don't know them you get this sensation that they are uninterested in you, and your blood pressure is scaling up. But what does friendship really mean to you?
We've heard, seen, and read a lot of stories about friendship, and it appears that there are a lot of different views of what true friends are. Friends, in my opinion, are people with whom you connect and promise to remain true to you through good times and bad, through thick and thin, in sickness and in health, much as in a marriage vow. Like all relationships, we are not perfect. We all do insane things that have the potential to destroy friendships. True friends, on the other hand, will never betray you and will always put aside disagreements over logic and facts, as they say.
Since 2008, Aaron, one of my closest friends, has always been a part of my life. We had our ups and downs, made bad judgments, and did crazy things together, just like any other group of friends. We got to the point where we hadn't seen each other in a long time, but we always found one other in the lowest moments of our life. Well, I guess those insane events are in the past, and we want to go on and ahead since what happened in the past was not meant to be forgotten, but rather to inspire us to do good in the present and future.
I am grateful and proud of my friend for his accomplishments; his achievement was not meant to be kept to himself, and he willingly shared it with me. Whatever I'm going through right now would not be possible without him, and my pain and misery will almost certainly continue since the pandemic began.
This blog is dedicated to him because a good friend should not be taken for granted but should be treated with love and respect. A true friend for life, a friend for keeps!
