Life is unpredictable but friendship is an amazing journey – we cannot live in this world without friends, yet we should never take friendship casually.   Many of us will say friend – but what defines a real friend?    I remember something my mother used to say to me when I was very young and at the time it didn’t make much sense.  Yet,  later in life I understood her meaning.  “True friends are like diamonds precious and so rare, but false friends are like pennies easy to find, yet so hard to get rid of.”  Her words a simple cliche,  had a profound meaning that I could not begin to fathom until I was much older and understood what friendship really was.

We have many associates in life.  We have people we hang out with, but friends sometimes are few and far removed.   Sometimes it takes a crisis to prevail before we really understand who our true friends are.   Friendship is a special bond and distance nor time will ever diminish the value of an invincible relationship.  Friends can have disagreements – they can become angry at you and can even stop hanging out with you, but if a need arises a true friend is always there to support you.   You can tell a true friend your innermost secrets and those secrets will never escape their lips.  You can cry to a friend and they will share your tears as if they were their own.   You can be in a precarious financial predicament and that friend will pool their resources to help you.   That special friend will love your family and friends as if they were their own.

If you are blessed to have true friends – then value them.  Let them know how much they mean to you.  Embrace your friendships because truly you are as wealthy as a millionaire.  You hold diamonds near and who needs pennies -when you can find them everywhere.

Serenity XOXO