Originally Posted by
sometimes_miss
Make friends, and keep them. Meet new people and make more, because they'll be gone when you least expect it. Over my lifetime, I never really noticed; oh, once in a while someone would tell me that someone from my past died, but it wasn't often. I'm a senior citizen now, and in the past couple of years, half of my friends have died. My mom too, and two cousins my age. People that had moved away, folks that I'd always thought I'd get to go visit, but never got around to doing it. Now they're all gone. The ones who are left, well, were never exactly my favorite people, yet, now they're all I have, so I see a better side of them than before, appreciate things that I had not.
See, when someone dies, we always think of the family, but we forget about the friends, who are often even closer to them. When I went to their wake, as I introduced myself, most said hello, a few, sorry about XXXX, but that was it. I had no one to tell, no way to deal with the hole left in my life.
So cherish your friends while they are there. You never know when they'll be gone.