Friends: Those Sometimes Overlooked People

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Friends, those sometimes overlooked people in our lives; overlooked because we take them for granted and sometimes we abuse that friendship for our own selfish ends and they let us do it. 

Friends, real friends are there for us, they have our back, they support us through thick and thin, they put up with our shit, they accept us as we are and they tell us the truth, sometimes when we least want to hear it. That is called love people. 

Real friends make up the core of your family and they must be cherished, and as I'm sure you know you cannot choose your family but you can shoose your friends.

Khalil Gibran reminds us what friendship is all about. 

FRIENDSHIP

Your friend is your needs answered

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving

And he is your board and your fireside

For you come to him with your hunger

And you seek him for peace.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind

Nor do you withhold the "ay"

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart

For without words in friendship

All thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared

With joy that is unacclaimed

When you part from your friend, you grieve not

For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence

As the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit;

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught

And let your best be for your friend

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill

Seek him always with hours to live

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness

And in the sweetness of friendship 

Let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.