Friendship
Everyone has a different definition of what friendship means. It is a concept nearly as complex as love. True friendship is something I have spent my life searching for like a prospector looking for a seam of gold. Growing up I was fortunate to have lived in one place. I developed a couple friends that I shared almost my entire youth with. We were neighbors and in many ways brothers. While connected to my familiar environment I always felt myself reaching to a world beyond. Those were the days of letters and I eagerly wrote to pen palls I made around the world. I had friends in Germany, England, Sweden and the Philippines. I actually ended up marrying my friend from the Philippines but that is a long story for another time. There was something special about learning from other people in seemingly exotic places. I discovered different points of view and a feeling that while far away, peoples thoughts, dreams and desires in life were very much the same. It instilled in me