Friendship has been on my mind a lot lately. I feel like I have spent too much time being bitter over friendships I have lost along the way. I am trying to change that. Instead of being angry and hurt over the people who have cut me off, hurt me, or dismissed me, I am choosing to be thankful for the friends I do have. I am choosing to let go of the pain because there are two sides to every story and no one person is completely at fault in a broken friendship. I am choosing to let go and embrace the people in my life who have made such a difference and stuck by my side through all that I have been through. I have seen bloggers do friendship fridays, and while I don't have the discipline to blog every week, I am going to do my best to adopt this tradition and give recognition to those who have touched my life. Though I do miss friends from the past, I am trying to let go of the hurt and not let it affect my trust and my happiness. I want to surround myself with positive, loving, supportive, and faithful friends and I thank all of you who have been just that to me. =)
Here are some quotes about friendship that I believe to ring true:
A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your friends.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf