Friends

Everybody has friends, at least I would hope they do.  We all have people you can say oh yea, that's a friend of mine, but do you all have the friends that you would call family?  We do!!
We have friends we call simply a friend; then we have friends we would call good friends; then we have the friends we call family. Whats the difference?  Well in my book a simple friend is someone you know and or work with, you talk to each other when your around but you don't go out of your way to see. A good friend is someone you are close to and can count on, but you don't necessarily have to keep in contact with; however you know they would do most anything for you.

Now the friends we call family are in my book some of the most important to have.  You need all different kinds of friends but these ones mean the most.  These friends are always involved in your life weather you have known them for 20 plus years or just a few.  It does not matter where they are from or what they do, they are just special people that just seem to fit into your life.  We are very fortunate to have several families that fall into this category and we love them all.  It does not matter if we see them everyday or week or month, just as long as we can see them and be a part of each others life.

Again all of us have friends most of us have good friend, but I don't believe everyone has the true family friend.  Like I said we have friends that are family, but we do have family that are our friends(My wife is my best friend).  I say that because like most we have family that are not friends, in fact we could care less about seeing them. But I will not go into that today.   Bottom line for me is you need to be thankful for all friends and treasure what I call FAMILY. 

We will have friend that go from just that, a friend, to a good friend to family. And for some it happens fairly quickly.  However it could go the other way also.  For now I just want to say thank you to all my friends, and to my FAMILY, I love you all.

You don't have to agree, its just my opinion..