What is a friend?

     What is a friend?  What is a true friend?  Sometimes in life we find the true meaning of this simple term.  The people we believe to be a great person and friend usually turns out not to be, and the ones we least expect to be there for us in times of need are the the angels.  Why does it usually go this way?  I guess it's a true mystery of life.  

     I have had friends I thought I could count on.  Good friends at one time.  Now they are nothing more than a cherished, faded memory in this journey  I call my life.  Miss them?  Oh yes, very.  But I also have a life, a future, to live rather than dwell on the past.  I try to keep my head up high.  Sometimes are harder than others, but I know I can get through anything with the true friends.

     What is a true friend?  They are the ones who stick by you no matter what.  A simple disagreement cannot trash the relationship.  They are the shoulders you cry on.  They are the ears that listen and the voice that tries to help.  They are the arms of an angel that try their best to shield you from the horrible.  They are the laugh that makes you laugh.  The smile that makes you smile.  The cry that makes you cry with them.  They are the love that loves you, and loves you for you. 

     I want to take the time to thank my friends and tell yall that I love yall.  You know who you are.  I know who you are.