The Importance of Friends!
Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2011
by Iris Taub
There is a saying that is so true, at least in my case. They say that old friends are friends for life!
How many times have you thought about the times you were a child, a teen or even a young adult that you met someone who you really connected with and that bond was so strong that you couldn't imagine not sharing your life without that person?
With our modern technology just finger tips away and the many websites that allow us to type in a name and hopefully get some hits on a familiar blast from the past, we can rekindle that friendship and pick up where we left off and recapture the special times we shared and hopefully we build new memories with those we were fortunate enough to re -connect with!
I have been able to contact many wonderful friends that I have lost touch with through Facebook and even if decades have passed, we somehow were able to pick up where we left off and have filled each other in on what life was like without that friend there. It is wonderful to be able to share some of our past memories and build new ones with these old friends.
I have found from personal experience that the friends that I had made while I was a teenager were the strongest of bonds and it is wonderful to be able to share our adult lives with them even if long distances separate us from physically being together. Many of those friends are now married, or have entered into another phase of their lives, being grandparents and they are helping out with their adult children with raising their grandchildren.
It is wonderful to be able to talk to these friends who share similar experiences that they are living on a daily basis via the computer or telephone and although we aren't as young as we were physically, when we talk, it somehow brings up back to our teen years and we laugh about them and wonder how our children and grandchildren will handle the changing world around them.
I have been blessed and still correspond with many of the friends that I met in Junior High School and High School and enjoy reliving memories of what was and sharing memories I am building with my own children and grandchildren.
Iris S. Taub
Parkland, Florida
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Yes Iris, being a senior citizen we have many memories of our friends when we were younger, good article thanks for sharing your views.Hi Dave,
Thank you for taking the time to read my article and respond to it!
Iris
Iris:
One irony I discovered is that having old friends helps you feel better about your own aging. You don't feel so bad. You look in the mirror and participate in the very human activity of measuring the depth of your wrinkles. Loved your article. It is very natural and heart warming to read it.
Yours,
ChristoferThank you Christofer for taking the time to read my article. It is amazing how although the mirror will show you what your outside appearance is, your inside is as young as you were when you talk to old and dear friends and you feel like a teenager again!
Iris
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