The Importance of Friends.

Sometimes we don't realize the importance of a friendship until it is to late. On 12/29/2010 I lost a friend of mine to lung cancer. The sad thing about this is I didn't even know she was sick. The last time I spoke with her was just before Christmas last year, when she called me for a cookie recipe. Now I find my self reflecting back on our friendship. We raised our children together, we shopped together, and always had our morning coffee together either by phone or in person. We shared the bad times and the good times, and then we just began to drifted apart. Our children grew older, and made there own friends, got married and the grandchildren came along. I went to work full time and somehow there didn't seem to be time for morning coffee and shopping, gossiping and all those good things. Now I am beginning to realize just how important these friendships are, we take them for granite thinking they will always be there. I can't count the times since I retired, that is said I should go and see her, or at least call and see what is happening in her life. At least maybe then I would have know she was sick. I would of known if she needed my support, but not me I was to busy, I just dropped the ball and made my little excuses to myself, and now I am sorry. I can't do anything now, I think I need to be a better person, and stop thinking so much about me and mine. Please people, always make time for a friend they are in your life for a purpose. She was here to teach me a lesson and I hope I have learned something from this, and where ever she is now I am sure she will be keeping an eye on me.