On friendship

I learned that not everybody you meet will be a good friend. Some will be good for a while, then when that season is done they leave. Some teach you to be a better person while others make you realize that you actually are a good person.

One way or another, you learn more and more about yourself. You realize that it takes effort to make and retain a friendship. That those who value you will let it be known through the distance and over time.

I also learned that not everyone will have the same heart as you and that's okay. Value those that do and move forward from those who only continue to take rather than to give. At least you know that at the end of the day, you were not the reason for the demise of that friendship.

That indeed you gave it your all and that there are new friends to meet and and that there will be new friends to keep.