Make New Friends...

I was humming this tune that I learned in Girl Scouts this morning and it got me thinking about friends...old ones, new ones, and people you meet in passing. I found that this article pretty much sums it up: Make New Friends, But Keep the Old FLM-FS-13-97 Christine F. Olinsky, CFCS, Montgomery County A popular song says to "make new friends/ but keep the old/one is silver/the other gold." Friends really are treasures - as treasured as gold and silver. Some friends become almost part of the family, often because of the length of time of that friendship. Others enter late in life but become treasured for the role they play, even though the time of that friendship may be short. Everybody needs friends. The need for friends does not diminish with age. In fact, friendship provides intimacy, fun, new experiences, and reinforcement of self-worth, whether a person is married or single, with or without children, or young or old. Friendships are often based on common interests or doing things together. Friends can be the same age, younger, or older. They can be the same sex or the opposite sex. The key to building a friendship is developing trust in each other and feeling that each person is valued for himself or herself, not for some outside motive. True friends share and confide in each other.