best friends

To define a best friend and for them to not reciprocate is a tough thing in life. It is what it is though. We see our separate lives and separate areas of the country and no longer are best friends anymore. I saw it coming. What is tough to do is replace that feeling, yet I have. I will call my father my best friend even if that is not reciprocal. He means that much to me.

In the age of twitter and facebook some things are decided otherwise

Friends are now so easily measured and lost in the same day. A social norm has been broken. What defines a friend? Just because I know you does not define you as a friend. Yet the internet is littered with this thought. Friends are not bits and bytes to me. Friends are interpersonal relationships that exist in the truest of forms. Are we so separated from conversation that I get a text message explaining that a raccoon is in the chimney? Talk to me, don't write me an instant letter and then call me a friend for doing so. Call me old fashioned, but I believe a voice is a better way to communicate than a key stroke.