FRIENDS ARE PRECIOUS.. :)

Friendship are unique relationships because unlike family relationships we choose to enter into them. And unlike other voluntary bonds, like marriages and romantic relationships they lack a formal structure. The beautiful special thing about friendship, that friends are friends because they want to be that they choose each other is a double agent. 
Throughout life, from grade school to the retirement home, friendship continues to confer health benefits, both mt that a friend should always both mental and physical. I think the young adulthood is the golden age for forming friendships, as they move through life, people make and keep friends in different ways and some people do manage to stay friends for life, or at least for a sizable chunk of life. I am fortunate to be able to claim at least three friends and a number of other more recent onces that are close and durable. But i have also lost enough to understand that friendships are difficult and the closer they are the more difficult they become.

Tread carefully. friends are precious, even irreplaceable, but they are also fragile. Part of a good friendship is honesty. I think women sometimes struggle with friendship in the long run as they seem to have an unspoken pact that a friend should always be supportive. They just invest so much in each other. In each of my closest friends there have been moments when the friendships has nearly foundered but we somehow came through them to a relationship that was stronger than it was before the crisis. The nature of  friendship changes and you have to change with it. Me and my old school friends are still here still together, we still enjoy being around each other, and we treasure our shared histories, this is something precious. They are so important to me. 
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendships..