Will you be my friend?

Since I occassionally like to post blogs about members of my family, I thought I would also start posting blogs about my friends. This one, being the first friendship blog, isn't going to be about anyone in particular. Just friendship in general.

I have been very blessed in my life to have some really great friends. Some of them I've known forever (or long enough to count as forever) and some of them for not quite as long. I've had really crappy friends and really wonderful friends. Guy friends. Girl friends. Older, younger, so on and so forth. I like variety (I think its a Gemini trait).

I always thought it was hard for me to make friends, but I think my friends actually think the opposite. I can be a bit shy (okay, okay, I can be REALLY shy) and I don't do well in groups. Past two or three people in a group and I have a tendency to blend into the crowd. Unless I know those people fairly well that is. Apparently though, I'm not quite as shy and backwards as I originally thought.

I made a friend my first day of Kindergarten and she still remains one of my best buddies to this day, but I was braver back then. I talked more and even sang and danced in front of my class. I'm not like that anymore. Not by a long shot. But then one of my newer friends, Maggie, pointed out to me that not too long ago when I tagged her in a photo on Facebook she was a might bit suspicious because she didn't really know me. She was best buddies with my cousin Sam, but we hadn't ever really talked that much...or even really been around each other that much. Come to think of it, I barely even knew Maggie. But she will tell you that it didn't take long before we knew each other quite well. Why? Because I'm about as open and honest as a person can get. This gets me in trouble from time to time, because a lot of people (okay, most people) don't really like that. Most want to hear lies and half-truths as long as they make them feel good. Most people don't want to really know how a person is, because it might mess up the image they have of them in their own heads. I understand all that, but that doesn't make me follow those rules.

So its like I told Maggie, when I decide I'm going to be your friend, then that's just the end of it. It may not work out that I get to keep you as a friend. You may decide you don't like me. I may decide I don't like you. But you better believe that when/if I decide you are going to be my friend, then I will not let up until you are.

Life is better with friends. You can live without them if you really need too, but they make life better. I'm all about making life better.