| How True Friends Love You
Posted: 7/4/2009 6:34:55 AM | True friends are hard to come by, but will remain in your heart no matter where life takes you. They may not be the people you see everyday, or even every week, but they will be there for you whenever you need them. True friends love you for who you are, and don't abandon you when things get too tough.True friends love and accept you for who you are. They don't try to change you, yet they have a uniquely subtle way of encouraging you to be better; and expect the same from you. Anyone who allows someone to continue harmful or destructive behavior is not being much of a friend, even when the other person doesn't see it as being harmful.
When the truth hurts or is hard to see, a true friend will still be honest with you and will tell you what you need to hear, even if it's not what you want to hear. They also know that you will do the same with them. True friends love you enough to fight for you and fight with you, and do whatever they can to help you through the trials life may bring. No matter how hard or messy life gets, and regardless of the miles or time that separates you, they will be there.
True friends become not only a part of your life, but a part of your family. Memories are made and a place is made in your heart for that friend. No matter if you stay close or slowly drift apart, that place in your heart and the memories you made, will always remain. You may even find yourself now reminiscing about someone that you haven't heard from in 15 or 20 years and think, 'They were a true friend'.
A true friendship isn't about how long you have been friends; it's about how good of friends you were. I have had many people come into my life for only a short time, and be what I believe were true friends. Most friendships will not last a lifetime, but just because a friendship doesn't last a lifetime, doesn't mean it wasn't true. | |
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| How True Friends Love You
Posted: 7/4/2009 8:33:46 AM | I am at the risk of commmenting on everything that is posted here and I hope no one minds. 
I enjoyed this tribute to friends and am glad you posted it. | |
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| How True Friends Love You
Posted: 7/4/2009 10:47:02 AM | | I thought it odd that I saw this on another website. It was written by a Joe Rochester, so unless you are Joe, perhaps you should give credit where credit is due. I think that is the proper form when it comes to displaying work that another has written. | |
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| How True Friends Love You
Posted: 7/4/2009 11:47:38 AM | "I think that is the proper form when it comes to displaying work that another has written."
That, actually, is the wrong way to display others' works.
The only proper way of displaying others' works is getting permission from them. If it's clear that an open permission has been granted, fine. If it has not been granted, then the copyright holder of the piece can sue the pants off the quoter. That's why everyone quotes the Bible, Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, and nobody quotes Woody Allen, the Led Zeppelin or Eamon.
Some exceptions exist, of course, like the original poster of this thread. Some repeatedly do plagiarizing and perhaps copyright violations, like the original poster of this thread.
Each to his or her own. I for one, have no problem with this practice of the OP of this thread. It's better than if the OP of this thread was smoking crack constantly or was robbing banks every once in a while. Or beheading Grayhound passengers en route to Edmonton. Or -- god forbid -- if she were a religious zealot. | |
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| How True Friends Love You
Posted: 7/4/2009 3:47:06 PM | and so you should have stated such upon posting this to a forum where people just assume, hmmmmmmm - creative writing forum - ergo - creative writers come here- ergo- you, one creative writer writes something- ergo- we assume it is yours- from your creative mind. Well, that's the way my logic works anyway.
Hopefully from now on, whenever you post something that is not of your pen or mind, you preface it, " A friend Sent Me This, or I Read This Somewhere, I have no idea who wrote it, but I wanted to share it with you, hope you like it too" and that way no one pulls the wool over anyone's eyes that such lovely thoughts came from your mind, not saying your mind is not lovely, but since this is a dating site and attracting others by way of our posts, the social interactions here dependent upon one's own wits and talents, why muddy the waters, allowing people to assume you are creatively writing when in fact you did not and heaven forbid, could not, write something so lyrical and lovely, with such a sweet sentiment not truly from your own lovely brain or equally, I hope, lovely heart. Perhaps if you google this piece that you posted, you can get in touch with Mr. Joe Rochester who did write this and avert that upcoming lawsuit. lol | |
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