Jan from Revgals writes: Ever since I found out I could be the hostess for the third Friday Five of each month, I have not been able to get the thought of friends out of my mind. Being an only child (all growed up) who moved around a lot in my lifetime, friends have always been very important to me. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: "The way to have a friend is to be a friend."
So today let's write about the different kinds of friends we have, like childhood friends, lost friends, tennis friends, work friends, and the list goes on. List 5 different types of friends you have had in your life and what they were/are like.
As a bonus, put a link to a new (to you) blogging friend and introduce us!
1. Make believe friends- yes really, I was an imaginative child and would create my own fantasy worlds filled with imaginary friends. I wasn't unhappy, but we lived quite a sheltered ex-pat lifestyle in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, so there were no friends to play outside with so I made them up. I loved fairy tales and devoured novels, and brought them to life in play!
2. Childhood friends, my childhood was not devoid of friendships however, and my best friend as a child was a Danish girl called Jan, I due to our sheltered life-style there were no great free adventures, I suspect that we were friends because we escaped into similar fantasy worlds!
3. Animal friend
s- when I was a young teen my family moved back to the UK, and my teenage years were spent on a farm in rural Essex. My best friend at this time came in the form ofa Connemara pony called Womble, to my mums disgust 9 she had to wash my uniform) he would meet me at the top gate when I got off the school bus and I would ride him home!
4. Family friends- I think that I can safely say that mu husband Tim is my best friend, we don't always agree, but we have managed to remain friends as well as lovers! Also as my children have grown up our relationship has grown and changed and we have in many ways become friends, and have made friends with their friends, this is an interesting dynamic in family life, a challenging one, but a good one. I think I can almost say that I am friends with my mum now, and that is also good.
5. Adult friends- these relationships are in constant flux due to the transient nature of my adult life. There are one or two folk who I don't loose touch with though, on Wednesday afternoon a friend and I went off to a coffee shop and chatted away for a good few hours, and it was good. I think that I am more likely to remain friends with folk now, simply because I am more comfortable within my own skin!
Bonus- On-line and blogging friends, some of whom I have had the privilege of meeting in the flesh, whilst for others oceans literally separate us, there are almost too may to mention, which is why Jan's cartoon made me smile!
I do know a few folk who think that this is an element to life we could do without, and that cyber friendships are not real friendships, I disagree, they are different though, and in some ways I know folk better than I otherwise might, and in some ways I don't know them at all. It is an interesting dynamic.
I haven't had much time to make new blogging friends recently, so I am going to introduce you to John and Olive Drane at 2 Church Mice. John and Olive have inspired me in so many ways through their teaching and their books, it was great to have some time to spend really talking to them at the ROMBS Conference recently.
