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Maintain Great Friendships
Recently, I realized that life is pretty hard and you really need your friends.  I’ve also realized that you can have a good job, make a lot of money and have fancy things but if you don’t have quality friendships to share life with, it’s lonely and miserable, isn’t it? I think Wikipedia’s translation sums up the meaning of friendship perfectly: “Friendship is a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem and affection. Friends will welcome each other’s company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of putting the other’s interests before one’s own. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them.” (www.Wikipedia.org)

If you grew up in America, your cycle of friendships may have gone a little like this: have some good childhood friends, grow up a little and make some more good friends in high school. As life progresses your family might move, your schools change and next thing you know you’re surrounded by a whole new group of people and your friends might be five towns away. If you go away to college, you make new friends and then when you have finished school and find your first job you make some more… see where I’m going with this? Keeping a core group of good friends is hard in this day and age. So, when you come in contact with quality people, try your hardest to keep in contact with them. I understand that life consists of major life transitions such as moving, getting married and having babies or watching your friend’s get married and have babies but it doesn’t have to end there. Schedule a weekly date or a monthly phone call and keep in touch. Make new friends but don’t forget to keep the old.

Friendships enrich our lives and are essential to our growth as women. We need to treasure each other because we need each other. Apparently I missed a very important holiday lately on May 4. Did you miss it too?

It’s “ National Friendship Day”. So go ahead, celebrate your friendships.

Lara Davis
treasurebox@chicblvd.com

“In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
Author Unknown