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Friendships are a funny thing!

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Friendships are a funny thing and when you are little, they seem to be singularly the most important thing in your life (after cuddles with mom obviously)

I watch my eldest daughter and her friends and in some ways she is very much like me, she has different circles of friends but maybe that is because I have encouraged that. I remember when she was at pre-school and she had her first “best friend” and one day that best friend wasn’t there and she was bereft. So began one of life’s lessons, people aren’t always there when you need or want them to be.

Someone once told me that the older you get, the smaller the circle of your true friends and there is never a truer word spoken. I used to surround myself with lots of friends, I was always throwing a party for any occasion or even for no occasion and I became the one that “organised” getting everyone together. 

Then life likes to throw you a curve ball (as it always does) and different things took priority. Not priority over my friendships but over the responsibility of organising everyone.  That curve ball focused my outlook on a lot of things and a lot of people. It made me realise who my true friends were. Obviously, there are two possibilities here, either I changed or I didn’t really know who they were until that very moment. 

My family are the centre of my universe but my friendships stand important at their side. These are my true friends, the real friends, the ones you know, without question that you really can ring at 3am in the morning and they will be there. I am very lucky to have them and I hope that as my eldest daughter and they little one after her, grow up, they cherish good friends and don’t worry about the others. 

Easier said than done but I got there eventually. Have you?

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  1. Lovely post. Friendships are so important to me but I do recognise (and your post confirms this) that we can't have that many close friends or inevitably we will be stretched so thin that things will begin to snap. Thanks for sharing this post :) REPLY: Thank you x

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  2. your comments are so true - it is amazing as you go through different stages in your life how you work out who your real friends are - true friends accept you for who you are and do not pass judgement - they offer advice when it is asked for and are there to pick up the pieces when things do not go the way you want them too - I do count my husband and family in that circle of true friends too REPLY: Its amazing how empowering it was to just accept it too!

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