You gotta have friends…I can hear the song playing in my head with Bette Midler singing, “But you got to have friends The feeling’s oh so strong, You go to have friends ,To make that day last long.”
I think any life story needs for you to include all the friends you have made in journey of your life. Yes you want to write about you family and for some of us our family members are our best friends. I think of all the friends I have rediscovered on facebook and the ones I am still looking for. I amazed how many of my elementary school and high school friends are using Facebook and it is great to make a new connection to the people I have not seen or talked to in over 20 some years. It is through that prism I see how different friends filled different roles at different times of my life. Some have nurtured me, some gave me strength, some celebrated in my success and some taught me the lessons of life but they all helped formed the person I am today. My family gave me the DNA for the potential and I had no choice but all the friends in my life either chose me or I chose them. And without those friends I would not be who I am today so I want to say thank you all for making me, me.
Triggers:
Discuss the relationship with the people that fit as:
- Elementary school friends
- High school friends
- College friends
- First job friends
- Work friends
- Neighborhood friends
- Organizational group friends
- Friends that have moved away
- Friends that you have lost touch
10. Friends that still call you friend
11. Friends that you wish you saw more of
12. Friends you no longer have time for
13. Friends that you need to really write about and to
14. What is the difference between friends and acquaintances.
You gotta have friends
