Day 39 "There Is Only Friend"

What defines a great friend?

Is it their show of loyalty in times where they are given a choice to turn their backs on you for the easier path? Is a true friend someone that weathers the storm alongside you instead of walking away from your struggles completely?

Is it their respect in times where your decisions are less than honorable and more than questionable?

Is it a great friend that chooses to stand behind you as your failures are embarrassingly open for all to see, and who will choose to share in some of your downfall as well?

Is it their desire to fight for the desires of your heart when you are broken and too helpless to fight any longer on your own?

Perhaps it is their show of strength when you are at your weakest?

Their desire to help rescue you when you do not care to be saved, but need to be?

Is it their understanding that even in silence, as the world forces us to lose connection and forget to make that call, that we are still as close as the days where we used to talk all day and take it all for granted?

Is a great friend someone that brings more to your life than just companionship?

Someone that brings to your life, lessons of humility and humor, of trials and tribulations, of conversation and silence, of ego and its defeat?

It is clear that there is no exact definition of a great friend, and that great or best are not even useful terms to me.

There is no good.

There is no great.

There is no best.

There is only friend, and that means you are my chosen family, and I am honored to be able to call you that.