What Is A Friend?

by Kit McCallum

A friend is someone you hold dear:
Someone who is always there, through thick and thin;
Someone who is only a phone call away.

A friend is someone you can always rely on:
Someone who is there to share your thoughts with;
Someone to listen, no matter the subject.

A friend is someone you can feel comfortable with:
Someone you can sit silently beside, without conversation;
Someone you do not need to fill the quiet moments with.

A friend is someone you can trust:
Someone who will guard your deepest secrets;
Someone who will never let you down.

A friend is someone who is not judgmental:
Someone who will gently offer advice and opinions,
Yet, someone who is not overbearing or critical.

A friend is someone who can keep you grounded:
Someone who can help you see through your obstacles;
Someone to shoulder you through life's trials.

A friend is someone who shares unconditionally:
Someone to laugh and to cry with;
Someone to lean on, through both the good and the bad.

A friend is someone you choose wisely,
For a friend is your own mirrored image:
Someone to compliment your own self;
Someone who indicates who you are as a person.

Since i left high school i have never known what it is like to have a friend, other then my then boyfriend who is now my husband. But with me now staying at my parents i have finally noticed how alone i really feel.

I have made friends online through BH and my awesome friends on SWB, but it doesn't quite feel the same as having a friend that lives close to you, that will come over most days, that you can talk on the phone to and tell your deepest darkest secrets too, or even bitch about your husband too...which i am feeling like i need to do in my current situation.

It is so hard to go out and make friends with a baby, and being in a mothers group where the mothers are about 10-15 years older then me doesn't help.

I really hate that my so called friends ditched me when i became pregnant, beacuse all i want now is a friend.