by Deanna Rogers

Created on: May 25, 2009

FRIENDS ARE THEY KEY TO A HAPPY LIFE

If there is one philosophy in life that I have tried to pass onto my children, it's that He who dies with the most friends wins!

I am now in that phase of life when dealing with the daily drama that adolescence brings is common place. I have two boys and a girl. They are each at a different phase of puberty, and each are experiencing issues that involve friends and schoolmates.

These situations are the typical, larger than life drama's that make a teenager feel like the world is crashing down on them. The acceptance dilemma, the left out of the group dilemma, the zit dilemma, the boy dilemma, the popularity dilemma! All of the same issues we all have experienced at one time or another during our teenage years! Oh to be young again! Little do they know that these experiences do not cease because you reach some magical number in life! I vividly remember struggling with the same issues in my adolescent years. I am grateful that I am equipped to navigate my kids through these international problems of puberty!

Over the course of life, I personally have been blessed to have accumulated a treasure chest of the finest friends on the face of this earth. Some are acquaintances. Others are accomplices. But most are genuine, homegrown, one hundred percent true blue friends. This collection began as a toddler and continued through adult hood.

My closest companions can be counted on the fingers of my hands. I have had hundreds of relationships over the course of time. When I came across a keeper, I placed them into my mental treasure chest. I have kept them polished and cherished them through the years. There is a lot invested in each of these friendships which like fine wine, fermented over the many experiences shared with one another, the hundreds of long discussions, and lots of ups and downs in life. Many of these experiences included a lot of laughs and lots of tears!

I view my girlfriends as one of the most important aspects of my life. After all, they are the reason that my marriage has succeeded and why I have become a really great mother! Through every trial or tribulation thrown at me, I have had my own personal panel of experts to consult with every step of the way. Only because of this, I have been able to gain the insights I was seeking, and have been able to maintain my sanity along the way.

Just as there are many assortments of precious gems in the world, so are the variety of my friend's and their dynamic

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