DISCOVERY
“I have found a new friend!”
Those words are certainly among the most promising you can hear yourself say. You may not say them aloud, but you will know.. you will sense that someone new and special has come into your life. You have found someone who will be your associate in all that you do; someone with whom you will share innumerable treasures.
A good friendship is a new source of wealth for you. With proper care and good management it will earn is own keep and and actually grow in value.
A friend shares his blessing with you, and you respond in the same manner. There is no prescise starting point at which this begins, no recess period once started, and no closing time.
Friendship becomes a binding ageement without any legal documents having been drawn up. It is a mutual understanding in which one will always stand ready to respect the views and feelings of the other. Both may be totally unaware that such conditions exist.
It cannot be said that it is all a happy time and a joy forever. Far from it. A true friend stands by you through "thick or thin"; through "in sickness and in health" and it is just such distressful times that demonstrate the validity of the relationship.It can either be underscored and strengthed by such moments, or blighted. Occasionally, it all just ceases to be with the same mysterious phases by which it came to be. It never leaves forever, I like to believe. The spark is stlll there, and may be revived by gentle, loving breeze to bring remembered warmth back into your lives once more.
And we must always remember that friendships are a two-way street.
At this very moment someone may see you as you go about your daily affairs; hear you express ideas they think are valid and true; listen to others and what they say of your ways of doing things and wondering how they can go about becoming a friend of ours.
You showcase yourself in everything you say or do.
A.L.M. November 25, 2002 [c428wds]
