Good (and even celestial ) Friends

 

When you are in school, you can never tell who will end up going the long haul with you through life. You make friends, you lose friends, you make one or two more, lose them, and rinse and repeat until you leave school forever one day. Your whole life actualy, you are sifting and being sifted through the friend pile that is ever changing, yet every once in awhile you realize that one or two stellar souls keep on sticking to you. Or maybe you stick to them. Or possibly you keep taking turns, and it all turns out to be this big parallel thing in your life where these one or two people seem to be running alongside you with eerily similar yet still distinctly different experiences, and you always seem to be helping each other. And it is in that helping and seeing and sticking to one another's sides that the friendship can truly be seen for what it is—a celestial intervention of sorts. And it is a reminder that we signed up to help each other along this joyous yet occasionally treacherous path called life, and there are in fact some people who stay the course for a really long time, and I am so thankful that I have been sent not one, not even only two, but a few of these good friends who I do not know what my life would look like without them running alongside me through the good, bad, and ugly.