Friendship and Locker Room

I want you to do me a favor: I want you to take a moment and think about the people in your life, whether it is a family member, a teacher, a boyfriend or girlfriend, a coworker, that fellow driver who cut you off on the freeway, or that person you said hello to in the locker room last week. But, most importantly, I want you to think about those people who you call your friends. What makes them deserve these positions in your life? How do you define the different friendships that have evolved up until this exact moment? What is friendship? Friendship is very precious. True friends are worth more than all of the gold in the world. Friends are those people who like you for who you are, and who know all of the good and not so good things about you, but still love and accept you regardless. They are the people who are always there for you; not just through the good times, but through the bad times as well. Friends try their best to help each other, even if they don't fully understand the other person. A friend is someone who can always make you laugh when you are down, and cry with you when you are hurt, because it pains them to see you weak. If you ever need a hug or a kind word, your friend is right there beside you. A friend is someone who can make you smile during the worst of times, and make you think during the hardest of times.