Friends

[keres]

I have a question for you all: What do friends and friendship mean to you?



To me personally friends are very important in my life. When I was young (-er), my life was anything else, but pleasent. I`ve gone through it all: I`ve been embarrased in front of others, humiliated, teased, laughed at, many times got into fights and been beaten up...The elementary school was a total nightmare for me, often times I was even afraid to go there, but still I had to. Because of all that, my education didn`t go as good as I`d want it of course, I started getting bad marks and then at home sometimes I got into trouble with my parents as well. I was spending a lot of time alone, just thinking about life...But it`s not the thing I want to talk about right now actually, it`s all in the past anyway. Long left behind and forgotten. I want to mention my friends who were there for me back then, friends who helped me get through those bad times. Thanks to them I was living the normal life and didn`t feel myself as a big loser. We were going out, playing soccer, basketball all day long...etc...just having fun! Friends have really been important to me in my life and that`s why I try to treat every friend with great respect. (ehh.. mistakes happen once in a while of course, depends on how they treat *me* also, but good friends still stay good friends!) Right now, everything is going well for me, not too good, but sure not bad either. I have many new friends from the current school (different than that other one), actually there`s even one guy there from the previous school, who used to make fun at me sometimes, I`ve now shaken hands with him too. Everything is ok. I don`t regret anything in my life....what doesn`t kill, makes you only stronger!

Thanks to Internet there`s also now friends I have in USA! And you are very important to me as well! Sometimes I do act like idiot here though, being jealous and sound ridiculous...I apologize for that and promise that i`m trying to be better now! After all I`m a member of "No Sad!"

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So what does your friends mean to you? Including these here on the Board?

[MissTara]

One word.... Everything

[curet30]

The friends I have mean a lot. I have two childhood friends I've known since 1969 and another since 1976. Although two of the three live in different states and have families of their own, we manage to keep in touch through the net and by phone.

These three in particular have been ushers at my first wedding and the same three were pallbearers for my first wife and my momma.

I do not take friendship lightly. If I call you friend, you can count on me being there, if at all humanly possible. I keep friends for a l-o-n-g time.

I hope one day my son can make lifelong friendships when he grows older and reminisce (sp?) about his younger days with his friends as I do with mine.


Internet friends can become stronger if you develop a relationship with that individual. I have met some (at various concerts) and their families and a better relationship developed once we became familiar with one another. I hope to be able to meet and greet many of you on this board.

And FunkyFakeTation....

I still ain't talking to ya with your "I'll Detour The Bronx" lookin' self

You know I'm just messing bruh ;D

[Peach]

Joe, that was great. We should all be so blessed to have a friend like you!!! Loyalty is a dying thing, it seems.

I have two very close childhood friends..... Judy I've known since kindergarten....actually, Beth, too. (So that would be.......1972!) There are times when we don't talk because we're so busy, but we always hook up again and check on each other.

It is sometimes hard keeping up friendships when you are raising a child alone.... I'm so busy with work, then child-rearing.......that at night I'm exhausted and just want to "veg." My best friends are ones that respect this and don't judge me for it. They know I love them. I have some male friends that are like brothers to me (because my brothers aren't very brotherly.) One of them always makes sure I'm getting by okay.... he'll make little care packages of groceries and bring them by. He'll just call out of nowhere and say, "Hey, I got some stuff for you." I'll repay him by proofreading his papers for his classes, etc. Sometimes they'll even do little "manly repair" things for me around the house. (I try to do most of it, but I'm still a weakling.)

I'm so grateful for my friends........ especially the ones that look out for me.

Peach

[Elbridge]

curet30 said:

And FunkyFakeTation....

I still ain't talking to ya with your "I'll Detour The Bronx" lookin' self

You know I'm just messing bruh ;D

LOL! To be honest with you, Joe, I wouldn't have even been in Manhattan if Mapquest hadn't messed me up as bad as they did. I was supposed to be over by LaGuardia Airport so you can tell how twisted things got. It was around 10pm and I'd been on the road for almost 7 hours. Have mercy on my soul... ;D. To be truthful, I didn't get a moments' peace when I arrived at the hotel. I was in the "on" position from the moment I hit the hotel that night until I left on Sunday. I got about 4 hour's sleep that night and was up incredibly early to set up for the wedding. I worked, packed it up, and got back to the hotel at around 11:30pm. By the time my assistant and I got back to the hotel, we were both incredibly tired and we just crashed. We woke up the next morning at around 11am and had to check out by 12pm so we even rushed to get out...LOL! My assistant had to return to the area that evening so, again, I didn't have time to breathe. Ah, the things you do for a wedding....

Ed

[brunneng]

Friends...I never saw that show. Hey, I never watched an episode of Seinfeld either.

Friends...I only have two true friends: They both live with me, my two cats.

For those who do have great friends, super, I am happy for you!

For my friends on this site, thanks for the nice messages, it gives me something to do when I am not working. Cheers!


...I never met her but I can't forget her...

[brunneng]

Peach said:

Joe, that was great. We should all be so blessed to have a friend like you!!! Loyalty is a dying thing, it seems.

I have two very close childhood friends..... Judy I've known since kindergarten....actually, Beth, too. (So that would be.......1972!) There are times when we don't talk because we're so busy, but we always hook up again and check on each other.

It is sometimes hard keeping up friendships when you are raising a child alone.... I'm so busy with work, then child-rearing.......that at night I'm exhausted and just want to "veg." My best friends are ones that respect this and don't judge me for it. They know I love them. I have some male friends that are like brothers to me (because my brothers aren't very brotherly.) One of them always makes sure I'm getting by okay.... he'll make little care packages of groceries and bring them by. He'll just call out of nowhere and say, "Hey, I got some stuff for you." I'll repay him by proofreading his papers for his classes, etc. Sometimes they'll even do little "manly repair" things for me around the house. (I try to do most of it, but I'm still a weakling.)

I'm so grateful for my friends........ especially the ones that look out for me.

Peach

You are not a weakling if you are a single mom. Where would your daughter be without you? You are a hero!




...every night on my knees I pray...

[ZeldaFScott]

I don't know what to say ... We have many very good and reliable friends here in the Sates. They are neighbors who were always there when I needed them during the time I was taking care of my mom. Since hubby was traveling, I was often all by myself when things got bad -- or even when I only had forgotten to get her insulin. I couldn't leave her alone and couldn't take her with me, so I called one of the neighbors. No matter what time of the day or night, they helped me out of my misery. Of course, I tried to keeps such requests at a minimum. But these people never, ever went to the crocery store without asking me whether I needed bananas (my mom's favorites). They were the first who came over to my house to cry with me when my mom had died. So friends, in my opinion, stay close to you, even if times are downright ugly.
The other kind of friends, we have in Germany. We are still close, although we have left 10 years ago. We run high telephone bills and still exchange family news and gossip about the people who live in the old neighborhood. We've been through a divorce with the parents of our godson, seen the same children who once wore diapers wear tuxedos now ... We don't ever want to lose their friendship. It feels as if we were meant to be close.

[keres]

BrunnenG said:

Friends...I never saw that show. Hey, I never watched an episode of Seinfeld either.

Friends...I only have two true friends: They both live with me, my two cats.

For those who do have great friends, super, I am happy for you!

For my friends on this site, thanks for the nice messages, it gives me something to do when I am not working. Cheers!


...I never met her but I can't forget her...

It`s always fun to read your posts BrunnenG! So what, you don`t have any GREAT friends? Why you only mention your cats? ;D I have a cat, but im not sure if she`s exactly my best friend though...Lol! Everyone must have at least one really good friend! I have lots of buddies here in Estonia, but only very few of them are who I can call my REAL friends and im totally fine with it actually. Not, that others are bad of course.

Here on the Board it`s almost the same, I know I have many friends here, lot of people who I really like, but there`s only one person on this Board who keeps communicating with me regularly...

[Elbridge]

I'm with Joe R. on that one. I was at IHOP with a couple of younger friends of mine, just last night and while we were there, he received a phone call. It was from his father. He said that he was taking mom to the hospital because she had a fever of 105 and it wasn't going away. This woman is in her late '40's and she'd just suffered a miscarriage four and a half months into her pregnancy because her thyroid was enlarged and because of her chronic anemia. The doctors had just finished extracting the remains from her body and she was on medication to induce contractions to clear out everything. A fever at this stage is a bad thing and I knew it. However, I remained totally silent about it because my friend is quite a big younger and, while he understood that a hospital trip isn't a good thing, he didn't know how bad it could have been.

Anyway, when my friend ended the phone call, we scarfed down a few more bites of this food we'd just gotten and, like clockwork, we paid the check and took off to the hospital. I asked my other friend if he was okay going to the hospital with us and he said he was fine with it. The three of us stayed there for over two hours until she was stabilized. I would have stayed longer but the friend who's mother was not involved had become so tired that he really needed to get to bed so that was my cue to take him home and go home myself.

And that's what friendship is. When someone needs something, they don't have to ask and you don't wait to be asked. You just do it. He needed to get to the hospital. I took him. No questions. His younger sister and he needed company. I waited with him. No questions.

Ed

[cornbreadsboo]

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ThaFunkyFakeTation said:

And that's what friendship is. When someone needs something, they don't have to ask and you don't wait to be asked. You just do it. He needed to get to the hospital. I took him. No questions. His younger sister and he needed company. I waited with him. No questions.

Ed

There you go! As usual, Ed, you nailed it. In order to have great friends, you have to be a great friend, and you are!

[brunneng]

Keres said:

It`s always fun to read your posts BrunnenG! So what, you don`t have any GREAT friends? Why did you only mention your 2 cats? ;D I have a cat, but im not sure if she`s exactly my best friend though...Lol! Everyone must have at least one really good friend! I have lots of buddies here in Estonia, but only very few of them are who I can call my REAL friends and im totally fine with it actually. Not, that others are bad of course.

Here on the Board it`s almost the same, I know I have many friends here, lot of people who I really like, but there`s only one person on this Board who keeps communicating with me regularly...

Yeah, I pretty much live like a hermit here in Vegas. Hey but you play the hand life deals you. I'm okay with it.

;D


...I've got sunshine on a cloudy day...

[keres]

BrunnenG said:

Yeah, I pretty much live like a hermit here in Vegas. Hey but you play the hand life deals you. I'm okay with it.

;D


...I've got sunshine on a cloudy day...

Hey but you play the hand life deals you.

I first read it as ...you play the life hand deals you...

BrunnenG


I have some sad news... I just found out today that one my former class-mates from the previous school has died recently.

[Peach]

BrunnenG said:

You are not a weakling if you are a single mom. Where would your daughter be without you? You are a hero!




...every night on my knees I pray...

Aw, bless your heart and thank you!!!!!

Peach