"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
I really love this quote. It is so true. I think that we all want friendship to just develop so quickly but it really doesn't!.. you really have to go through stuff to know if a person is someone that you can really call friend (the real kind)-
the through thick and thin friend..
the you have seen me cry about lame stuff and intense stuff friend...
the i'm afraid of the dark will you come over and stay with me? friend....
the friend you'd leave with your bf or gf and not think twice about it...
the i'll be honest with you because you need to hear it friend...
the i'll sit in silence with you friend...
the i'll laugh with you until we feel like we're going to throw up friend...
the i'll pray for you friend...
the i can sing at the top of my lungs (and off key) and you don't care friend...
the i'm holding you accountable friend...
the you said it all with one look and no words friend...
I think that we all want that bond with someone so deeply. If you don't your probably not being completely honest. That's ok. Anyway, I have more than one friend like that and I'm so thankful for that. I can't even begin to explain how glad I am that I don't have other people in my life anymore because the friendships that I used to have were terrible! Yeah, i wasn't blameless but I got hurt because I never stood up for myself. Standing up for yourself feels weird. It feels like you might be hurting someones feelings if you say what you really feel or think. I can't even tell you how my life has changed since I stood up for myself. God has taken that place of hurt and pain and is turning it into something amazing...with new friends and family that I would have never known if I didn't stand up for what was right.
I don't really know where that came from but I guess it was on my mind.
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