People

As this blog begins to take shape, I think I will be posting about people often. Not just particular people but generally speaking as well. Today, it's both....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KINGSLEY!!!

Kings, as I call her, is one of my greatest friends. We met in elementary school and have been friends ever since. I can even remember her 6th grade birthday party like it was yesterday... .... Happy Birthday dear friend, and may we celebrate many more in the future!

Birthdays are a pretty standard time for reflection. Kingsley and I have had one heck of a friendship too. We've been through it all and are still here to laugh about it today.... I can't say that for all my friends through the years.

I'm lucky, and you are too, if you have even a handful of people to call good friends. I mean really good friends. The kind that you call at 3AM because you are having a quarter-life crisis, or the kind that can convince you to do literally anything just because "it will be fun." And obviously the kind that are there for you not just when you fall, but every single time you fall, and need some help up.

I've had all sorts of friends throughout my life. Living in a couple different states, going through college, graduate school, and a couple of campaigns keeps the turnover of people I meet and hang out with high. It also makes maintaining a true friendship hard. But fortunately for me, I have people, like Kings, who have stuck by me.

I was planning on going a little bit further into what it means to be friends and how friendships end, but it's Friday.... And that's stupid because friendship means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

So instead I'll leave you with this...

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival." -- C. S. Lewis

I like this quote and if you have close friends who add value to your survival you are blessed.

Enjoy the weekend, I know I will....

xoxo Sara Marie