Best.

Recently... i've been thinking a lot about who my friends are.

Friends come and go as you may know.

The ones who stay in your life the longest though, are the ones you may consider to be your 'best' friends.

I sat for a good few minutes this morning just thinking about 'best' friends. Naturally, the best of something, will never be the best for long. There are always bigger and better things coming in the world. So for one, how do i expect myself to survive in a world where everything can only get better? When i've seen my own image deteriorate slowly over the past few months. More to the point, how can anyone come to expect their best friends, to remain best friends, or even just friends, for their entire lives?

I realise that not every friendship needs to end in flames, i'm just merely stating that we can't expect people to be there for us our entire lives.

A friend of mine once said to me that 'seeing your friends should be a pleasure'. By this she meant that we cannot rely on people to be there our entire lives, every second of the day. To see them once in a while should be enough, as we need to focus on the more important things in life. I for one know that i have not so much wasted time on people, but spent time i could have been doing something more appropriate by talking with someone on the phone for about an hour.

I think that after a while we become to familiar with our friends. We talk to them every day. See them every day, every weekend. But what happens when these people are no longer in our lives? Where do we turn then?