Like Father, Like Son

Someone once said, ~Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch anyway. And then there are the ones like the commercials, always changes, ever-so-annoying and only seem to be there when you are bored. But every once and a while you meet someone who's like a really good movie of the week or that one tv show you hardly ever get to see anymore because you're so busy. My point is hold on to the friends you care about and since we don't have a remote control to mute someone or just change the channel, pick your friends carefully.~

Let me ask you this question, how long have you known your partner(s)in crime who you can basically consider them as your brothers and/or sisters. You know, the funny thing about the friends that we run with either from childhood or over the years is that we oftentimes don't see them as the people they are now or vice versa. Its that underlying truth we all can try to hide from or escape from but can't. Without a doubt, they change on the outside, but they don't change who they are on the inside. If you think about it, they can become an important and/or successful person in a particular field and despite that fact we still treat them as if they never made it big for themselves.

Each and every one of us will and forever be a part of a group of friends that has their own individuality. Its those same friends that you can fight with on a semi-daily basis and yet can keep that bond of friendship in tact...most of the time. Essentially, they can give you the biggest headaches by doing things that can totally embarrass you to the point where you just can't believe they you are associated with them. On the other hand, they can give you that much needed source of entertainment when life just get a little bit boring. Hey, you may not be able see eye to eye with them at times, but the one thing you know for sure is that when you need a friend or friends you can count on to be there for you and you for them.

As with life, friends move on and have their own lives to lead either on professional or personal level; but one will try to stay in contact. For its nice to read an email or get a phone call from a friend that you haven't seen or talked to in years and find out what they have been up to lately. In some cases, it can be a sad situation to hear that he or she has fallen on hard times and is just trying to keep one's head above water. However, it can be a great situation indeed to run into a friend who you haven't seen in years and find out they got married and has a family of his or her own. It can be news that either does or doesn't surprise you, which really depends on the friend in question.

Several weeks ago, on a field trip at bowling alley, I ran into an 2 old friends and former co-worker that I haven't seen in quit some time. Though I have seen his wife out and about, her husband, my old running buddy from the asylum days I found out was on leave from Iraq for about 2 weeks. For the most part, he hadn't changed a bit because he was the same goofball but one thing had changed he was a father, which I could never grasp that concept around my head. You see during his asylum days he was the biggest hyperactive kid working there and now he has a 2 kids of his own. From what I could see his son looked like his mom. but the hyperactivity that I saw was exactly just like his dear old dad and in the end, what I thought was true saying in deed which was like father, like son.