Friendships

As we all know this past week was Thanksgiving break. After spending Thanksgiving day in St. George with some of my extended family, my brother, my parents and I drove down to our home in Henderson, NV. Although most of my time was spent confined to my room catching up on all sorts of homework and reading, I did go out one night to catch up with some of my very best friends that I hadn’t seen since school started. I never expected a simple reunion with my friends to be so sweet. But when I initially saw them, I couldn’t hold back my desire to leap into their arms and just embrace them. Even though it had been months without seeing or really even talking to them, we acted as though we had never been separated. Distance had not made us act different or estranged. We were our goofy selves. As I caught up with them, I realized how much I truly missed them. Being at college, with all the schoolwork, and social activities, and church meetings, you get kinda caught up in it all. Being with them, made me realize a few things: 1) I am the suckiest friend ever unless I’m actually physically with you. I just suck at keeping in contact even though we have texting and calling and face timing and skyping and a thousand social media websites. I really just suck at being a good long distant friend. Yeah, I’m definitely going to be working on that haha. 2) There were things I noticed I did, that they did. They were just little quirks that I picked up from them from the countless hours with them in High School. I needed that reminder of who they pushed me to be and I who I was with them because that was my favorite self.  It occurred to me that God put those people in my life because I needed them….even though I didn’t know I needed it. They are the friends that I will forever be thankful to for helping me develop who I am. I have pieces of them in my actions, my words, my clothing, everything. I love them and I will forever consider them my best friends no longer how long we go without keeping in touch. For me, true friendships don't need the constant talking…its about being able to pick things up right where you left them off without skipping a beat. God puts those kinds of people in our lives because he knows exactly what we need. And he knows exactly who we need.