You Can’t Prime Ship a Good Friend

In a world of next-day deliveries and digital convenience, the most valuable things—like true friendship—are still only built, never bought.

I have good friends and neighbors. I can’t buy that on Amazon or WalMart. My friends offer to take me to the airport so I don’t have to pay the high rates in the long-term parking. They’ll give me helping hand whenever I need it. All I have to do is ask. If they’re around, they’ll be over in a minute or two. I hope I’m the same kind of friend to them. Friendship is a two-way street. It’s always earned and easily destroyed. Friends forgive and forget. They laugh at each other’s idiosyncrasies. Your close friends are a treasure. Protect your friendships.

Points to Ponder

1. Have you told your closest friends how much you appreciate them lately?
2. Are you as quick to offer help as you are to receive it?
3. What small habit could you develop to become a more dependable, present friend?
4. Do you treat friendship as something sacred—or something convenient?
5. Have you forgiven a friend for something petty, or are you still holding on to something not worth the weight?

And remember:

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” — C.S. Lewis