About friends.

So thanksgiving came and went... once again. I give thanks for everyone and everything and yada-yada so on so forth (we all know what we're thankful for ;) but THIS thanksgiving was a little different. See, a great friend of mine came up here from So-Cal and it had been eight (ocho, huit, acht, 8!) years since i last saw him. He moved away when I was 12, enlisted in the Marines when he turned 18 and served two tours in the middle east and now has a beautiful baby girl and a wife, but the curiosity of all this is that when he came back, we started talking and hanging out and it seemed like he had never even left at all :D despite how vehemently our lives had changed, how much all of us had grown and matured, we were still just as good friends as the day he left. I think that's the proof of a real, genuine friendship. the trust that remains between friends despite the passing of distance and time. my friend came and went and i still trust that guy with my life (and thank him for fighting for it over in the middle east). I guess what i'm trying to say here... well, i'm not really trying to say anything. I just wanted to write about this. We all have friends (I hope) and as you're reading this blog, i'm sure you're thinking about that friend of yours that can leave for 100 years and when they come back, the friendship would be just as strong. I thank God for my friends, and even though we are now in December, it's never too late to do so. Make sure you give your friend a call soon to say "what's up?" because you never know when one of you might be gone for good... i guess THEN it would be too late.

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