Well, here is some words for thought....Earlier today I was downstairs, doing laundry (Thrilling, right?) and I was thinking about one of my friends who is in need of a lot of emotional help. Anyway, I then proceeded to think about friends in general. You know, once you begin to think about it you will find that there are a slew of different types of friends. We have acquaintance friends, semi friends, general friends, close friends, "friend" friends, real friends, 100% friends, fake friends best friends, best friends forever friends, family friends, and even Angel friends. (I call my best friends forever since before time my angel all the time)
So, as I had all of these running through my head and I kinda started thinking, someone should write a book about these different types of friends. I mean, we hear all the time that you only get a few really good friends in life and the rest come and go. But how do we know which friends are which? I have one friend that I've been friends with since Elementary school and I know for a fact that we will always be friends. She is my angel. I have another friend that I met in Junior High and she is another angel to me. These two friends mean the world to me. But there used to be a third.
Again, in junior high, I met a girl who moved into my town. We hit it off automatically. For three years we were nearly inseparable. But then something happened. When I was 14 we went to a camp together and we were roommates. I guess when you live with someone for a few days you really get to know them in a way you didn't think you could. I won't go into detail on what all happened in that week, or the agonizing weeks, months, and even now that followed. But one wedge got put between us and it destroyed us. I don't blame her for what happened, and only sometimes do I blame myself. My point in all of this is that a friendship that I thought would last for forever didn't. It's nearly impossible to even think about those blissful days without feeling a wound being reopened in my heart.
There are a lot of books that use friendship as their subject. But I've never read one that talks about friendship like I wanted one to. To talk about knowing the difference between friendships, and how to handle a broken one. I shared this idea with a friend of mine. I explained my thoughts and said "Someone should write a book like that."
He then looked with a 'duh' expression and said "You're a writer. You write it. Why wait?"
Good question.
A good question that I didn't have an answer to. Why shouldn't I give it a shot? What's the worst that could happen--I completely fail and suck at it? That's the author's risk. Now, I'm a fiction novelist, fantasy is usually what I like to "roll with" (as my sister would say) but I think I should give it a shot. I have no idea how it ill turn out, but I'm going to do it. I'll post little pieces of it on this blog so we'll see how it goes. At the very least I'll just rant about my personal feelings. Wish me luck!
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