Friends

Friends

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This quote really sums up what has been weighing on my mind lately. I don’t really know why I have been thinking so much about friendship and those wonderful people I call friend, but here are some thoughts on the subject.

I consider myself to be a pretty friendly, dependable, social and outgoing gal. In the past it has never been too difficult for me to meet new people and form many positive connections in some way or another. I have been extremely lucky in my time to have some truly amazing and loyal friends come into my life. Some of these relationships have existed for only a short time, others a lifetime. No matter what the length of time I have always tried to be a good friend in return and hope that others would consider me so.

Here is a list of some of the friends, many of whom I still have regular conversation and interaction with today . . .

Friends from the important stages of my life include:
~ childhood, high school, college, working environments and the single life after college ~ No matter when they came along the important thing is that they did come.

I have enjoyed many late nights of mischief, wild & crazy adventures, heart break, deep conversations, holidays, fun vacations, camping trips, movies, weddings, baby arrivals, yummy dinners and looong road trips with some of these wonderful people (just to name a few). These experiences are written into my memory mostly because of the feeling that came with the memory – a feeling that I was loved and cared for and that what I felt and had to say (or do) was important to someone else.

So here is to all of the great friends in my life. I love you and miss you and hope you feel our friendship is special! My challenge to all of you today is to go out and hug your other friends, tell them you love them, do something nice for them, send an email or give them a call just because.

I am convinced that friendship makes the world go ‘round and I am so blessed to have all of my friends as part of my world, however small it may be.

~ Lori Ann


"I pull you from your tower, take away your pain, show you all the beauty you posses if you'd only let yourself believe" - Sarah Mclachlan

"See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around." - Dave Matthews Band