Friendships
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
-William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)
I found this quote on another friend's blog and it has stuck with me. As I have reflected on the past; mistakes made, friends gained and lost, good decisions as well as bad decisions, life changing experiences, good times, sad times, joyful times, spiritual highs and spiritual lows, changing thoughts and attitudes, changing locations, gaining responsibilities, new jobs, and the list could go on and on, I love this quote more and more.
I am friends with a lot of the same people I went to jr. high and high school with, though rarely have any of us been in the same location for more than 10 consecutive days since then, we maintain a friendship. These people have changed, gotten married, had children, lost parents, become raving liberals( :) ), but I still love them just the same.
My best friend and I, whom I have been best friends with since jr. high, always joke about how crazy everyone thinks we are because still remain close with one another. Although she is attending seminary in Texas and goes to the school we vowed we'd never attend due to our friend's turning crazy after attending there, we still remain best friends. She is amazing and such a comfort and encouragement to me. We have laughed together, cried together, mended broken hearts, give each other a swift kick when one is needed, rejoiced together, mourned together, loved together, served together. She has shaped my life in more ways than I can count.
I am so thankful to have a boyfriend who loves me for me (everyone break into the song now..."not because i look like Cindy Crawford" ). I always tend to overexaggerate time and say we've known each other longer than we really have but it's been like 5-6 years since we met, 3 since we've realized we like each other:) He has changed since I have known him. He has changed me and I have changed him, mostly all in great ways. He is always there to encourage me, to push me that last extra step when i can't or don't want to go anymore. He challenges me and doesn't let me get away with taking the easy way out. He lets me cry on his shoulder and picks me up when I am down. He knows me and still sticks around! I know him and still stick around!:) How can you not love someone who when you tell him jokingly to shout his love from the rooftops, goes outside, gets on the roof and shouts, "I love this girl!" over and over again until I'm laughing so hard and begging him to come down because I'm embarrassed!
I have many friends from college who i still love and adore and look to for guidance and great story telling! The majority of them have moved on to grad programs, marriage, the military, the workforce and those things have changed them and shaped them as well. I worried when I gradauted college about how things would change with my friendships. Some are even richer now than they were in college and bring with it a new depth of maturity.
I love experiencing how everyone's situation shapes them and influences their thoughts and decisions. I love seeing God work in the lives of so many, while keeping us knit together in our friendships. None of us are the same people that we were the day we met each other and it's been exciting to be a part of the journey that God is taking all of us on.
-William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)
I found this quote on another friend's blog and it has stuck with me. As I have reflected on the past; mistakes made, friends gained and lost, good decisions as well as bad decisions, life changing experiences, good times, sad times, joyful times, spiritual highs and spiritual lows, changing thoughts and attitudes, changing locations, gaining responsibilities, new jobs, and the list could go on and on, I love this quote more and more.
I am friends with a lot of the same people I went to jr. high and high school with, though rarely have any of us been in the same location for more than 10 consecutive days since then, we maintain a friendship. These people have changed, gotten married, had children, lost parents, become raving liberals( :) ), but I still love them just the same.
My best friend and I, whom I have been best friends with since jr. high, always joke about how crazy everyone thinks we are because still remain close with one another. Although she is attending seminary in Texas and goes to the school we vowed we'd never attend due to our friend's turning crazy after attending there, we still remain best friends. She is amazing and such a comfort and encouragement to me. We have laughed together, cried together, mended broken hearts, give each other a swift kick when one is needed, rejoiced together, mourned together, loved together, served together. She has shaped my life in more ways than I can count.
I am so thankful to have a boyfriend who loves me for me (everyone break into the song now..."not because i look like Cindy Crawford" ). I always tend to overexaggerate time and say we've known each other longer than we really have but it's been like 5-6 years since we met, 3 since we've realized we like each other:) He has changed since I have known him. He has changed me and I have changed him, mostly all in great ways. He is always there to encourage me, to push me that last extra step when i can't or don't want to go anymore. He challenges me and doesn't let me get away with taking the easy way out. He lets me cry on his shoulder and picks me up when I am down. He knows me and still sticks around! I know him and still stick around!:) How can you not love someone who when you tell him jokingly to shout his love from the rooftops, goes outside, gets on the roof and shouts, "I love this girl!" over and over again until I'm laughing so hard and begging him to come down because I'm embarrassed!
I have many friends from college who i still love and adore and look to for guidance and great story telling! The majority of them have moved on to grad programs, marriage, the military, the workforce and those things have changed them and shaped them as well. I worried when I gradauted college about how things would change with my friendships. Some are even richer now than they were in college and bring with it a new depth of maturity.
I love experiencing how everyone's situation shapes them and influences their thoughts and decisions. I love seeing God work in the lives of so many, while keeping us knit together in our friendships. None of us are the same people that we were the day we met each other and it's been exciting to be a part of the journey that God is taking all of us on.
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