I've had a good weekend. It's being pretty quiet, and I've enjoyed it. The heat is still really bad though. Making it awful to sleep. I'm waking up really early, but it's nice. To be awake when everyone else is sleeping. It's raining here at the moment, but still really warm. It's kind of nice to just walk in the rain, let it hit against your skin and for that second you're just a little bit cooler. It's nice walking in the rain. I don't know what it is, but I can just sit and watch it for ages. So powerful, but yet not. I like it. The sun is nice, just not as beautiful and mysterious. As I said my weekend was pretty quiet until Sunday evening, when I got a phonecall from my best friend in floods of tears. Me and her have a funny relationship. We have known each other for a very long time, and we've had our ups and downs, like any friendship does. I know without a doubt that she will be there for me. No matter what time of the day and night she needs me I will be there, and it works the other way too. So she rang, and I went straight around to make sure she was ok.
We are very different, we always have been. When we first met we kind of tolerated each other, as we were in the same class, and had the same friends. We did build up a friendship though. In some ways we are very different. She lives for the moment, is very loud and out going, trusts everyone, is very funny, and a totally good hearted chick. I'm more quiet (well in comparison to her, hard to believe huh?), I don't trust as easily, and I'm more of a thinker. We have very different opinions on things, that have caused us many problems in the past. I think we compliment each other though. Our qualities go together, and we get on really well. I view her as just another member of my family.
Her Uncle had a heart attack, and her boyfriend was being funny with her. Hence the phonecall, and my going round, as the cheering up brigade. Her uncle will be fine, will just take time. As I'm sure her boyfriend will be. He's just being, well, a man, hehe! The only way I know to make people feel better is to make them laugh. So I went round and listened to her, and offered words of support, and then I did some clowning around, and made her smile. I hate seeing people I love hurt. I wish I could just take it away from them, and make it all better. If only we had a magic wand huh? We got to talking about our younger days. heard me like I'm really old. When we at school, and all the things we got upto. Some of it is so embarrassing! I would repeat some of these stories, but I'm hopeless at re-telling such things, and if you wasn't there, it probably won't be that funny! Plus, it is very embarrassing, hehe! It was nice to remember these things though. All the trouble we got into. The more things we got away with. It was all good fun. I'm smiling just thinking about it all.
When we was sixteen we went through the most difficult time of our friendship. As I said before we have very different views on things. We went our separate ways when we were sixteen. Different friends, different situations. She started going out drinking all the time. I was more of the nerdy one. Went to college, and was alot more quiet. She did so many things I didn't agree with. The biggest one was her affair with a married man. She used to babysit for a friend of her Mums. They were all good friends, and she had an affair with the Father of the children. No matter how much I tried to understand. I couldn't I thought it was the lowest of the low. I couldn't hide my feelings on it from her. We didn't speak for a while. Until the affair ended. She regrets it more than anything. I would never have stopped being friends with her because of that, I'll support her through anything. She just found it easier not to see me during that time, because deep down I think she knew I was right. I also realised she had to make these mistakes for herself.
Friends are very important to me. I don't have many, but the ones I do have, I treat as family. I know they will always be there for me no matter what. They will laugh at the past with me, and be there in the future with me. I know having them makes things alot easier. Someone to hold your hand through these times. To give you a reassuring hug when you feel the world is ending. For them words of support. Friends are priceless. Through the good and the bad, they will be there for you.
Subject: A simple friend vs A real friend
A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.
A simple friend hates it when you call after they have gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A simple friend wonders about your romantic history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.
A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps themselves.
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you HAVE an argument.
A real friend calls you after you had a fight.
A simple friend expects you to always be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for you!
Just as I wrote this, she sent me this in an e-mail, nice huh!