Friends

I guesst this might be one of the most important realizations I got, true enlightenment.
I have always thought it matters if your friends fail you, it stays in you if they do it hard or for a long time, and your friendship with those people is not the same afterwards. When I thought of those relationships I felt some dark shadows around my heart and I thought they were in a way lost forever.

And suddenly a couple of days ago I realized it is not true. You live through that wounds, you remember them but the only thing that truly is significant is whether you can be really close to the friend at this particular single moment, at this second. If you can laugh together at this second, if you can look into each others eyes and feel understanding and contact at this moment.

And also - some people just stay in your life for years, and sometimes you hate them, you hold so much against them, and it doesn't matter, for some cosmic reasons they are still there, for sure keeping just as much against you. They are there not necessarily when you need them, often not, and this also doesn't matter. The pure and only fact of their existence in some proximity to your life makes them your friends.
I guess I'm growing up or something :)


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