What About Your Friends?

A lot can be said about this topic. One that it's of course a situation that we have all gotten involved with and that is the est of real Friendship. On this topic I draw a bit of inspiration from R&B supergorup TLC in their 1992 classic "What About Your Friends". The song really goes into the depth of what true friends are and also sheds some light on the things that some of the fake people do i.e. what I call the seasonal "friends" and I use that term loosely.

In this life we as people have to surround ourselves with those who are positive. We thrive on having at least that one person who is going to uplift us in the down times that we of course will go through in life. These are the people that we call our friends. A  true friendship however is something that cannot happen overnight. Real friendship is something that has to be developed on the foundation of trust and loyalty. This type of a relationship can be very hard to come by especially in our young lives in where we run into the majority of the fake people.

We run across different types of people that enter our lives that we are to quick to call our "friends". The one I would like to focus on in this post is one that I call the "seasonal friends". Seasonal "friends" are those that enter our lives only for a short period of time thus this is why we relate them to a season. We have to be careful when inviting seasonal people into our friendship circles. While they may bring a little excitement and good times, it takes a "true" friend to really stand the test of time and can still be there when shit hits the fan. Seasonal  friends tend to leave when things get bad and in times when you really need someone. Always keep in mind that the seasons constantly change.

A healthy tip is to choose wisely on the people that we decide to give the "friend" title to because the real one are always very hard to come by. Letting random "run of the mill" individuals into our lives for the sake of saying we have "friends" is not the right way to build a healthy friendship. We only end up being hurt in the process when the so call friend up and leaves us hanging. We have to learn who the "real" friends are in our lives and build relationships with them. Only then can we call them  a FRIEND. In the end "I'm Just Saying......"