Friends

As I was going through my things, I happen to stumble on my college pictures. It was four years then but still the memories are impossible to be forgotten. Though most of them are now working abroad or in other places here in the Philippines, pursuing their own careers, it still feel great to get in touch with them every once in a while. Thanks to the internet and cell phones,it is surely a great help in bridging the distance and keeping the friendship still burning even miles apart.

What is a friend?
Someone who...
Accepts you as you are,
Believes in "you",
Calls you just to say "HI",
Doesn't give up on you,

Envisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts),
Forgives your mistakes,

Gives unconditionally,
Helps you,
Inspires you to be the best you can be,
Just happy to be with you,
Keeps you close at heart,
Loves you for who you are,

Makes a difference in your life,
Never judges,
Offers support,
Picks you up,

Quiets your fears,
Raises your spirits,
Says nice things about you,
Tells you the truth when you need to hear it,
Understands you,

Values you, Walks beside you, X-plains things you don't understand, Yells when you won't listen and Zaps you back to reality.

Friendship is not based on how many secrets you share. Isn't how well you get along nor how much you like each other. Isn't how people see you together. But friendship appreciates the differences, the gaps, the hindrances, the trials...and still a friend looks at you straight from the heart without hatred, without judgment, without envy, without criticism and only pure acceptance .

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. They are like stars... you don't always see them, but you know, they are always there. A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Friends are people who comes into our lives that left footprints in our hearts that made us never the same.




When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.