Thoughts on Friends

Friends really are important.   Good friends that encourage you to do you best are just as important as your family, you can't really live life without them.    It's like this quote on a tile that's on a bookshelf at my bedroom, "Friends are: allies, supporters, companions...the family you keep."    Besides serving others, be a friend to everybody regardless of background, race, gender, religion, etc. that are really sincere and do really care about you, and try as hard as you can to keep those real relationships as possible.  Cyber friendships are good too if you know what you're doing and are careful, but unless they cultivate into a real friendship, you're just talking to a picture with words on a screen.   So take time to make real friendships, your life and the lives of others will be greatly enriched as you do and friendships are more valuable than all the super nice material things like gold and cars put together.