That's What Friends Are For

If I've seemed a little distant... I kind of have been; this weekend was spent visiting an old friend, and helping him out with a big project, one that left little time for regular blogging (though I tried to keep up... but yesterday pretty much got away from me).

Over the past few years - since blogging started, really, for me - much has changed in my life; I've had a lot of time to contemplate friendship, what it means, what one can and should expect in a friend. I've made new friends, lost old ones (and some new ones, even), and I've had friendships come, go, come again, and change.

Through it all, I've come to believe the best you can do is try - you can try to be the kind of friend who shows up, who listens, who tries to go above and beyond when it's possible. At the same time, it's reasonable to expect something in return - a measure of support, a sense of being heard, and understood.

I've said here any number of times, I feel lucky and blessed to have the friends I have; lucky because I'm never entirely sure I do enough on my end to be there for them... and blessed because with their love and support, almost anything is possible.

So the stars aligned and somehow, this weekend, I was able to give something back, to help out, to be there for someone else. That's what friends are for, good times and bad times. It's even worth losing a day of blogging. :)

(Flower - photo by weboy - for... Elizabeth)

Comments

[jinb]

Success too!
(we think)

Thanks again...WAY above and beyond.