Friends Are a Precious Commodity

Invest in friendship and you will never lose your soul

a best friend from five decades ago, a school reunion, determined to find me she networked, never shirked in her quest.

we connected again and I am blessed we carry on the conversation as if it were yesterday we last spoke.

true friends never let you down, stick with you through ups and frowns, smiles and tears — never judge throughout the years, spend cherished time they don’t begrudge a moment spent with you to make you happy, soothe your blues.

marriage endures if foremost we are friends. we forgive our mistakes, the unintended heartaches. differences dissolve, arguments never linger. we hold on fast to our friendship — a firm foundation for everlasting love.

(you stood by me through all my faults and false ideas that appalled you — yet let me try them, though you didn’t buy them.)

friendship is not a stock exchange — no transactions, credits earned to purchase favors, no bridges burned — the only shares invested in memories of being with a friend who cares, who dares to tell you what you need to hear.

friendship is a gift that in the giving asks naught except to free the boundless love which lies in wait to express our heart’s ambition.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone on our planet were to invest in friendship — an inherent element of our human nature?

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” — Paramahansa Yogananda.

These are my favorite songs about friends which I carry forever in my heart:

Thank you for being here.

And thank you to Sahil Patel for this inspiring prompt:

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