Friendships

I've been thinking a lot about my friendships lately. Sometimes you lose track of old friends, but are reunited. (Facebook, how I love thee!) Sometimes we lose good friends because we grow apart. (Oh how often this happens when one friend becomes a parent, but the other does not.) Sometimes we realize that those who claimed friendship, really took so much more than they gave, and we further realize that we are not willing to sustain those one-sided relationships any longer. Sometimes we have friends that we get along with swimmingly, but there's some other obstacle to getting together. (Kids' incompatibility comes to mind.) I have some very, very dear friends who have withstood these tests that face friendships, but I have others that have not. But, in the end, I am thankful for those who do weather the storms, because my friends are truly my family.