"Thats what friend's do"

There could not be any better a statement.

Now I cannot quote any specific person for that line, well I could but that would be everyone that has ever called themselves a friend of someone, which is truly inidicative of a true friend. Trust me they can be damned hard to come by.

But there are so many varieties of friends, even true friends, some of which you just hang out with cos they are great and funny and just awesome till the end, ad would help you out no matter what but you could not confide in them as much as you would say your other friend, one whome you can just tell anything and un-questionably trust them to keep your word, even more than you would a doctor.

I have two such friends, my best freind of 12 years and another deeply close friend that I met when I moved here to Texas. I shall not reveal their names just because they are my friends and I dont want anyone to steal them from me!! I know really selfish right? Well you would do the same in my possition.. Trust me.

Nor will I go into the dirty details lol, I know what the hell is the point in reading this post your thinking?! Well I am kinda hoping you would like, take the time, stop and think about who your friends are and what they mean to you.

My friend of 12 years i would do anything for, kill die kick in the shin cos he was a completel dumbass... You name it I would do it. But there are things about myself that I cannot tell him, or my wife for that matter (oh F.Y.I she does not know about this blog and I am kinda hoping to keep it that way. Not that I dont love her or anything god I would give my soul for her everyday of the week and twice on sunday! But this is my private spot, se gets all the real juicy stuff though :p) about real personnal issues. Things that I have kept secret since before I knew any of them, the age of ten to be precise, and then some.

The one friend that I said I could tell those things, well that the other kind of the Hienz 57 variety friend I have. I tell that friend stuff and they tell me stuff but I dont know its just a big trust, honesty from the start, as it is with all of my close friends and my wife. I dont know how to explain in and that in itself is the landmark of this friendship.

Friends are very important ya'know, they are your connection to the world outside your own, they are your anchors, your life jackets and strength.

Show me someone who acomplished great things that never said he didnt owe anything to his friends, Julius Ceaser had Marcus Brutus, his right hand man and solid companion. And I am sure you all also know that Brutus was a key member in th eplot to kill Ceaser, that just brings me to my word of caution: Be sure you know who your real friends are.

I have many buddies, but I only have 2 close friends, 3 if you include my wife. Now I know that may sound offensive, but she is my wife and therefore has a category all to herself, she is my life, my love and my soulmate and there is no one on the face of the earth who could replace her, short of Anne Hathaway!! Joking of course.

Look its 2:37 AM and I am writing, ok typing, this on 2 out of 4 cylinders, which is a lot for me on a good day really. So if none of this is making any sense what-so-ever then ok, sorry I wasted your time.

The simplification is this, think! You have friends, discover who they are. Stand by them and see if they stand by you. Save them and hope they would return the favor.

You have to take a chance in order to give one.To trust someone is to give them the power to kill you and hope they dont use it, same definition can be applied to love. Infact I am sure I heard it somewhere else.

Like here I am taking the chance by writing all these deep down and personal thoughts here in the hands of complete strangers to me. I am a very trusting person, good thing and a bad thing, and I love making friends. Some things will never make it on here but my friends, one or all will know it. They are my time capsules should I pass on they will remember me and tell tales of me to their friends and families as I would of them.

They have become appart of me and trust their lives to me and I do to them, thats what friend's do.

Pheonix