Have you ever dreamed of having your own ''Forever
Friend?" Not just a great friend who you knew in your childhood
years or perhaps a high school or college friend, but someone who
would be with you in your heart forever?
We all grow up being given a chance in life, and that chance
is to do the best we can; to be happy with ourselves. There has
never been a person I know of, that has mastered doing everything
perfectly, as we can only grow and become a ''Forever Friend'' through
living. We must learn all that there is to know about ourselves
through experience.
Experience often brings happy times, but it can also change all
that is good and take us away from that road to happiness we are
working to find. Experiences may be the foundation of our life, but
they are not the end result. We alone control our own destiny.
Often we struggle for many years making what we feel are the
right choices in our lives. We live through what later are remembered
as old dreams, but not what we wanted for ourselves at all. What is
important is that we recognize when we are wrong and try to begin again. Never losing hope for the happy ending we seek
in life.
To say there is an easy recipe to have a Forever Friend? There is
not. It takes a lifetime of sharing and not many people will take the
time to ''feel'' that for another from the time they are young until
they are old.
Forever Friends can be closer than a sister, a brother or any
relative to you. They will love you unconditionally, though often they
may disagree with your decisions and choices. They will cry when you
do, they will laugh when you smile. They will love to hear everything
you have to say, though often you are only making small talk and
have nothing that significant to say at all. It is the being together, whether in person, on the telephone or over the computer that
keeps you close in spirit.
Through the years we all change and though our young faces become
mature, and they are lined with the expressions of laughter and
sadness, it is those lines that tell a story about all of us. The lines by
the eyes; are they from laughing or tears? The wrinkles that form
on our faces; are they from age or are they also from the
feelings we have experienced? To me, a face without lines,
is a person without feelings. Like a beautiful painting; the face
reflects our inner self.
Forever is a long time, but forever can be the joy one feels
having loved someone for only a short time and then losing them.
Forever Friends simply means; I will be there for you for as long
as we live. Accept you for all that is good and bad and help you with
your faults to encourage you to be all that you can be. It means that
I will never leave you, and though I can not be with you,
you are closest to me. You are my next breath, you are in my heart where you are protected and nurtured, appreciated and
loved.
You have been my Forever Friend for most of my life and through
those years we have shared the good and the bad. We have married
others, divorced, remarried, but not to each other, had parents and
loved ones die, had our children, grandchildren, pets, mutual friends.
We have had dreams that materialized and some that just drifted
through our minds; unfulfilled and leaving pieces of sadness in our
hearts. What is important is we remained Forever Friends. We
know that no matter what happens, as we grow older, we
have our memories and nothing can erase that from our hearts!
There is no lesson to teach a child how to have this wonderful gift
in their life, as it is one that will come to very few. If you are
blessed with someone in your life that has been part of your life
forever, tell them you love them, give them a hug, and never
forget that you are "Forever Friends!"
