Friendship

“If you never had friends, you never lived life.”
I don’t know who came up with that quote but it did catch my attention. What would life be like without friends? Quite dismal, I’m thinking.

When we are young our circle is quite small, beyond our siblings and cousins, it mostly consists of our age group at school. Isn’t it hilarious that when we are little we think those that are five years older or five years younger are waaaay out of our league? Fast forward a few years and the age gap seems to shrink. I’m not exactly sure when that happens? Or perhaps it doesn’t happen for everyone. I don’t claim to be an expert on the topic. Do you like to be just with your age group? I’d like to know.

Personally, I think it is healthy to have friends from all age groups. I love the friends I have among the children and young people. I can learn so much from listening to the seniors, so it is essential to have those as friends too. In this sense of friendship I’m thinking of a friend as someone who is easy to visit with, share ideas with and just generally be at ease around them. Not a lot of social posturing.

Then there are also ‘best friends’ who are in a bit of a closer category. Even if you are away from them for years, when you are with them you can quickly connect and spend hours catching up. Like a year ago when several of my friends from school days showed up and we talked, laughed and enjoyed each other for several days. Then they flew back home to their respective places on the globe. Truly it was fun while it lasted.

When I’ve pondered friendship the last while I’ve realized that a variety of friends fills a variation of needs in ones life. Like I don’t think of some friends as essential and some as not. They are each one very much needed! Every one!

This topic feels huge if you really would expound on what all friendship is. I’m sure it means different things to each one, and probably depends where we are in life too. So, just so y’all know, if you are in my life, I really do appreciate you!

I’d love to hear from you on what friendship means to you. Perhaps I will add to this topic later on. Feel free to post comments to this blog by clicking the “Read more” tab or you can WhatsApp me too.

I’ve decided to blog from my website since the previous blog site I was using was separate it was harder to find. So you can check back here if you are interested. Of course, while you are here check out my candles. I have a few heart shaped dough bowls left. When they are gone I don’t plan to get more for awhile. I do plan to keep the oval ones in stock though. And I have an idea ‘growing’ for a Mother’s Day gift.

Thanks for your friendship!