Five minute Friday time.
Yes I am aware that it is Sunday, but I am going to write anyways!
Here is the scoop:
Www.lisajobaker.com gives you a word and you write for 5 minutes. No editing. Just write. Link it up. Also don't forget to comment on the post link before yours. Easy. Fun. Do it.
The word today: friend
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I grew up with Friends, Sex in the City, Saved By the Bell and even Harry Potter. All these shows had one common theme... Friends, friend, friendship....more accurately: The power of not being alone.
All of these shows left me searching and wanting friendships that looked just like those did on the screen. I didn't know or maybe even cared that it wasn't real or even realistic I just knew that I wanted a Carrie Bradshaw, or a Monica or even a Hermonia....I craved for friendships that lasted through trials like Zach and Slater....I needed friends that would love me just for me. I wanted to choose my friends but also wanted them to choose me.
I loved watching on the movie screen or tv screen how much these people meant to each other. Watched how they never spent the Holidays alone, or when something good or bad happened they had someone to celebrate with or cry with. I loved how these friendships were more like family. Maybe reality was I just always felt so alone and I just knew these people...these characters... knew nothing of feeling that. I dreamed of having that life. Maybe even as an adult I still desire my friendships to resemble a little of those friendships. Even now as I know these shows were fake, the characters were not really this close, nor did their lives really look like that; it doesn't stop my heart from
that longing....
Haven't we all?! Haven't we all been attracted to these shows not just for the love story, or humor but maybe we all were attracted to them because we had or have some longing in our own heart to have a group that understands you? To have a person who doesn't leave you in times of trouble? To have a person or person be your soul mate when it seems no one else wants to?
Friend in the dictonary almost might as as well say: there is power in not being alone.
Our brains know it.
Our hearts know it.
The enemy knows it.
Stop.