The Lone Wolf is Not as Mighty...

Have you ever had a really close friend? One that's been there through it all and one that has grown alongside you? Someone you've known for a long time, a really good friend of yours that shares many of your experiences and memories. Someone so close that people who know you only know you as a pair, example: "Christian and Bob"? Your identity becomes one with the other person because you're never seen apart from each other.

While it's true that friends come and go, why does that have to always be a fact? If you practically grow up with someone, and that person is your best friend, why do you have to grow apart? Sure, we grow in different environments and we make different friends here and there, which ends up changing our likes and dislikes, which, ultimately, changes who we are... but that doesn't mean a friendship should be lost.

I care a lot about friendship, perhaps a tad too much. I get easily attatched to someone and feel like that person is my friend even though I've only known him/her for about two or three days. And when a friend is no longer around, or suddenly vanishes from my life, it feels like daggers are stabbing at my heart.

"People eventually grow apart," is what they say, but I say otherwise. Things may happen, and people may change, but if there was ever a strong bond between two people, something strong enough to be true friendship, it shouldn't end there. "Best friends 'till the end." I'd like to see that come true.

With that introduction out of the way, I begin to think and reflect on the people I've known in my life, those who I've grown up with. Some of them, I have no idea where they are, others are still around, but they seem as if they weren't. Very few have stayed close to my life.

How would you feel if you found out that one of the people you used to hang out with all the time, that very special and close friend you played with not so long ago, has become a thief, a crook, etc? It'd hurt, like a bee sting to the heart. Someone you once loved, but never quite stopped caring about has become a drug addict, a bum, a prisoner?

I don't want to think that the people I love will ever "cross over to the dark side". I never want to see any of my friends or past friends becoming anything of what I just mentioned, I'm not sure if I can take it.

One of my friends, my best friend at some point in time, gave me this scare once. While he never quite did anything wrong, I noticed a change in him, and I'm not so sure that the change was for the good. It was nothing completely horrible, but tears did come down my face just thinking that he could possibly end up being these things. Just the thought made me shudder and cry.

Friends are there for a reason, and I believe that whenever someone is going through a rough time or a period of change in their lives, friends should always be there to back him/her up. A friendship is a special bond between two people and it's not something to be taken lightly. When two people love each other as much as best friends do, no matter how many years pass or what happens in that time and how far you two grow apart, you'll never stop calling that person your friend.

Just something else that I want to throw in there: Whenever friends push you away, it's usually when they need you the most.

This blog was:
Dedicated to : A very special friend of mine whom I hope I haven't lost...
Inspired by: This video and the hope of finding a lost friend.