What does time do to our friendships? When one of my dearest childhood friend keeps coming to mind it prompts me to call her When we chat or have a chance to see each other my friend and I quickly establish the common ground required to have a meaningful conversation about the trajectory of our lives. I remember playing and sharing our dreams. Now we laugh hard about how different our lives turned out. When we share it's from a special place in our history of growing up that we can discuss the present and our hope for the future. In growth and development the American Academy of Pediatrics states that "making friends is one of the most important missions of middle childhood -- a social skill that will endure throughout their lives."
"Besties" is the new term for those real friendships that you make along the road in life. When I talk with my dear friend, we usually take a moment to go back in time. While we get to chuckle about the awkward years of our youth other times have allowed for truth-telling that heals.
We still speak our minds,
we still hold each other's dreams
we still hope and trust
we still share and
we still take time out to be friends
We need relationships in our lives that allow for healing so that we don't remain entangled in the vestiges of hurt or brokenness. Relationships that help us dig out, free us from self-harm and/or give us hope have real power to change the world.
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