From My Heart

This past week taught me the definition of friendship again.

For a long time, I carried on fear about friends. My constant thoughts were "I allow you this close but not so close so I don't hurt you and you don't break me" or " I give you some information so you don't know enough to harm me and I don't ask a thousand questions so I don't know too". To me, that was mutual, you stay in your place and I stay in mine. Of course people proved me right and I learnt to let go.

But one lesson I learnt between the 18th to the 21st November 2011 is that friendship is about mutual respect and openness. I always knew this but I learnt a personal definition for my friendships. Until you find people you can talk to without being ashamed or scared or criticized, I say plainly, you are still on a journey to identify your friends.

As humans, we carry a lot of baggage that can only be off loaded in words.

Enough wrongs that people did to us

Enough lessons that we want to learn

Enough issues we need to see

Enough love we have to share

Life is awesome, if only we had an extra hand to hold us as we move

An extra ear to listen as we speak

An extra mouth to speak as we live

An extra heart to treasure the things we hold dear

Life would be incredibly amazing if we were and had the most amazing people in the world to call: 

OUR FRIENDS.

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Thanks ATE