An Old New Friend

I had to blog about this experience. It has left me with such amazing feelings over the last few weeks. I recently found my childhood friend. A friend that I had from 5 years old all the way through highschool. Somehow or another and perhaps memory just fades me on specifics on how it happened, but it seems we went our seperate ways after high school graduation and unfortunately lost contact for many many years.

Throughout these years of separation there were many occasions that this friend entered my thoughts. Whether it be from certain particular shadows from the sunshine on the ground, long hot summer days, or even certain smells that would bring me back to my youth and those fun filled days with my best friend. I truly beleive this friend entered my thoughts because she was truly, in fact, a 'true friend'. Perhaps in the quirky way of the universe, when she entered my thoughts maybe it was because she was also thinking of me too? And we were somehow communicating through our subconcious and the universe.

The reunion of finding her was very emotional for me. As we are both, obviously, so much older now and seeing each other and how we are today makes you feel like "WOW", where did the time ago?" And how did we lose track of each other? So I suppose I was feeling sad and old but at the same time happy to have found her and reminiscing about our childhood and the fun we had. The inseparable beings that we were is truly quite amazing when you think about today's world. Back then we always had time together, the days seemed long, the tasks of life not so heavy. Granted we were children, without jobs, or houses to care for or bills to pay. However, even when I think about the surrounding neighborhood families, life back then just seemed alot lighter, a little more carefree, and neighborhood families were all friends.

I am so happy to have found her again and I am happy to have the opportunity to renew such a beautiful and true friendship. What are true friends? I found this wonderful paragraph online and I hope when you read it and you can think about someone in your life that is this person to you. Or when you read it you see yourself as this person to someone else - that true friend! Everyone needs a true real friend. Without copying and pasting the whole paragraph I found, here were some highlights.

Oh yeah, that photo is of my best friend and I on junior prom night. I acquired this image from taking a picture of a picture with my digital camera as I do not have a scanner. It worked ok. So to my new old friend, Karen -- you were every one of these highlights and so much more!

FRIENDS:

Beyond a doubt, we must know and remember that true friends can and will improve our lives.

Real friends can be a source of self-esteem, affection, and good times.

In times of despair, for example, true friends will offer hope.

The right friends can help someone feel worthwhile.

Some of us will remember that school, work, parenting, and senior citizen life are better and more fun when shared with friends.

But for the friendship some of the factors are honesty, faithfulness, similar religion and culture, loyalty, being a good listener, love, having ideas in common, and to a lesser extent, age and intelligence.

But there are other reasons why real friends are essential. We must be very aware that real friendship is vital throughout life.

You can quickly discover real and good friends when you are down or when you require their assistance the most. Why? Because a real friend will not desert you when you are down, and will not turn against you in jealousy, for example, when you succeed.