That’s probably a song lyric from somewhere, but I’ve been thinking about friendships a lot recently.
There are so many different layers to friendships. The friends you tell everything that has ever happened to, the friends that you are most emotional around, the friends that drive you absolutely crazy, the friends that you’ve shared special memories with.
What I’ve realized though is that you might be able to become best friends with someone in a month, but that friend will never know you in the way that a childhood best friend knows you. They may end up knowing you better in pretty much every other area. You tell them about everything happening in life. They are completely updated.
Your childhood best friend, on the other hand, might not know hardly anything about your life. They may have no clue how many years you worked at your last job, let alone your spiritual and mental state. But they have something that the “best friend in a month” person can never have.
Experience in different ages of life.
As time goes on, the “best friend in a month,” can gain these kinds of experiences. But even then, they won’t have experienced you in your prime years of growing as a kid.
Some people don’t keep in touch at all with their childhood friends. Maybe even aren’t on good terms with a lot of them, but for those who are, there is a special bond between you and these people.
They don’t need to know everything you’ve done because you have enough memories to keep you busy in the times when you’re not catching up. Every other minute there’s a story from when you were younger and did some crazy thing.
There are special parts of every friendship, and I cherish each of them greatly.