8 January 2012
Friends are the family that you choose for yourself. You love them for the good, the bad, and everything in between...and you accept them for that. You trust them with all of your secrets, spend lots of time together, and most of all, you trust them. Distance isn't an issue...it's like a filter; a test of how good of a friend they really are in your life.

Throughout your entire life, you will have many people that will come and go. Over time though, it's the people that've stuck with you throughout all of the tears, the laughs, and the fights that's worth keeping around. Many of my friends don't live near me, so I've learned very quickly which friends are worth keeping and which ones really aren't worth the effort to keep in touch with. It hasn't always been something that was easy, but I had better friends around that I turned to that helped me through it.
Friends are great to have around. They are a great source of advice, support, and much more. I appreciate every single one of my friends, nationally and internationally. They make me who I am today and I only hope that they are able to say the same about me. There have been many fun and crazy memories made in my life that involve my friends, and I wouldn't want to have shared those moments and memories with anyone else in the whole world.