Be A Friend

Where would we be without friends? I don’t know about you, but there’s no better place to be than with the people who know you best. My mum and dad know me, but they haven’t been there for most of my formative experiences. My friends have.  I am a really lucky person that I’ve had good friends for so long. But, I have less and less time to see them. They might get an SMS, an email, or a poke on Facebook, but that is the equivalent of waving at them from the other side of a crowded room. If friendship is a fire, a Facebook message is like adding a small twig to the flame, a phone call is a dry branch, but a face to face catch up is like dragging a log onto the fire.  One thing I’m going to do in the New Year is visit more- go round for a cup of tea, meet in the park and have a walk, possibly a drink in the pub. In fact, I should be calling my friend Chris, who has been my friend since I was 5, rather than writing this. So, that’s what I’m going to do. Call him. Now.

Call up your friends. Pick up the phone. Go and visit. Stop looking at this screen. Be a friend.


Jez