The Perfect Equation
The Perfect Equation: Friendship The age old song, make new friends,but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold...keeps running through my mind. I'm normally a silver gal, but when it comes to friends I stick with gold. Each one of my friends is as precious as gold. I'm well adorned with "gold." If friendship was an Olympic sport, I'd have many gold metals, not awarded to me, but for me, for having them as a friend. So here is my dilemma: when is a friend a friend? At what point does a person cross the "friendship line?" At some point a person moves from being an acquaintance to a friend. What qualifies the linear movement on the timeline moving from silver to gold? I feel like some friends start out as gold and others stay silver. Some may be more of a bronze, if you will. We use the term "friend" so loosely these days; Facebook and social media has made it so easy to "friend" someone. I disagree, calling a person a f...