Best Friends Forever and Always

Ring a round the rosie pocket full of posies ashes ashes we all fall down. The joys of childhood, playing games and making friendships, friendships we are sure will last forever. However, do those friendships really stand a chance at lasting forever as we think they will when we are children?

When I was little, I thought my friendships would last a lifetime. A couple of friendships in particular I thought would be forever. We were so close that I just knew we would always be there for each other.

As we grew up and graduated High School, my friends and I found that life became very busy as we worked and started our own families. Over the years, it seemed we never saw each other and hardly ever spoke to each other.

During my adult years, I resigned to hold on to the precious memories of my childhood friends while making new friends in my adult life. The friends I made in my young adult life were never very strong or long lasting and many times were very one sided.

Suddenly at the age of 40, my childhood best friend and I have connected again. When we were little we had much in common and thought a lot alike on most things. As adults who have had completely separate lives for more than 20 years we have been amazed to find that even after all these years we still have much in common and we still think the same on many topics.

The only regret I have is that I wasn't there for her during the years that our lives took us in different directions. I am thrilled at the fact that years of being apart we still have a strong, trusting, caring friendship. Our friendship seems to have just picked up where we left it so many years ago.

Now I am in hopes that the other friend will also come back to us and we will all three be just as close as we were in the past. It looks very likely that this will happen.

While some friendships last only for a season there truly are some friendships that last forever. Those friendships are to be respected and cherished.

When I was little, I thought my friendships would last a lifetime. Now as an adult, I am convinced they will. I also believe that certain friendships just have that special something that causes them to grow sweeter and stronger as time goes by.

When we grow up childhood games get put away. Childhood friendships do not have to be put away. They only need nourished in order to grow with us into our adult lives.

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