Today there will be an abundance of conversations all throughout the world. Some will be meaningful and have great significance, and others will be filled with triviality and balderdash. Still chatter will occur, and communication will prevail. However, there will be those instances when reserve is employed, and the person who desires to say one thing will say another, and the restraint of the tongue will sometimes be beneficial and other times seek only to hide. That's when true friendship is revealed. That's when one knows if he or she has friends without barriers.
An old manuscript states, “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” When a person is in “the heat of the battle”, “engaged in the war”, and “where the rubber meets the road” the truest relationships appear, and those who are merely acquaintances and associates manifest themselves. Friends know no barriers, and the revelation of the deepest thoughts and feelings are never impeded for lack of trust. In other words the simplistic “raw” individual will be known, and nothing is hidden from view.
So, how many “friends without barriers” does each reader know? How many people can be trusted with the deepest, darkest thoughts and ideas within? How many times has each reader bore his or her soul in hopes that a “friend without barriers” would appear only to find themselves shoved into a proverbial closet of disregard, unresponsiveness and disassociative labels? Perhaps today should be a day when people seek others to whom they could be a “true friend”, a “friend without barriers” and find themselves confided in when adversity compasses their friend's life.
Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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