friends eagle I love my friends. I'm incredibly happy to have the ones that I do, and I always have aquaintances that may soon be converted to friends. Friends kick ass. 980831 ... eric eagle kicks ass! (and he's cute too) 980905 ... charley i.e. denise, eric, eagle, angelea, sage, wayne, dave. .......... 980907 ... [marissa] i remember the night we talked for eight hours and fell asleep still holding the receiver, not daring to sever these wire communications; separated by twelve minutes of highway. and i remember all the times i gave in to him, and let it spill when no one else would do. and the nights we'd laugh for hours without stopping to breathe too long. the pureness of our voices. and i miss my best friend. 990304 ... nicedream don't mean a thing 990325 ... Meg are the people that can indulge in your colorful dreams and add more color... 990622 ... thera I'm just barely learning how important they are. My source of energy and inspiration and guidance. I thrive on them. 990728 ... drew now that i'm away from my friends, i can't seem to make any new ones. not being into drinking seems to drive them away, and being in a couple does too. not to mention that i listen to "wierd" music and talk about "wierd" things. sheesh. 991007 ... is me what are they for? 991009 ... trakie some friends are just people you've been around so long you ignore their faults. others you love their faults and everything about them. 991010 ... ricmariem someone to be with when you're all alone someone to use to someone who use you someone to argue with and in the end make up with someone to love and hate it's destined, it's fate 991031 ... Colleen Why is it that when conflicts arise, you have to choose between your friends and your feelings? 991112 ... amy me: luh. i'm still exhausted. other Leo: my lips are chapped... 000229 ... camille There were two friends who had been parted by war so that they lived in different kingdoms. Once one of them came to visit his friend, and because he was imprisoned and sentenced to be executed as a spy. No amount of pleas would save him, so he begged the king for one kindness. "Your Majesty," he said, "let me have just one month to return to my land and put my affairs in order so my family will be cared for after my death. At the end of the month I will return to pay the penalty." "How can I believe you will return?" answered the king. "What security can you offer?" "My friend will be my security," said the man. "He will pay for my life with his if I do not return." The king called in the man's friend, and to his amazement, the friend agreed to the conditions. On the last day of the month, the sun was setting, and the man had not yet returned. The king ordered his friend killed in his stead. As the sword was about to descend, the man returned and quickly placed the sword on his own neck. But his friend stopped him. "Let me die for you," he pleaded. The king was deeply moved. He ordered the sword taken away and pardoned them both. "Since there is such great love and friendship between the two of you," he said, "I entreat you to let me join you as a third." And from that day on they became the king's companions. And it was in this spirit that our sages of blessed memory said, "Get yourself a companion." Adolf Jellinek, "Beit ha-Midrash," in Francine Klagsbrun, Voices of Wisdom 000323 ... Tink "my friends look out for me like family" damn, i miss the days when H2O was the greatest band in the universe. 000419 ... grasshopper return 000525 ... grasshopper friends remember friends are family 000525 ... mungo i got into an arguement with two of my friends last night. both of them disagreed with what i said, and that's fine. what isn't fine is that one of my friends does not respect me for having an opinion that is against his. he said i don't respect him because of where i stand on some issues, but he doesn't understand me and now i know he never has respected me. 000619 ... Merigrace Hey Michelle- I've been there. I understand what it's like not to have anyone who cares. Drop me a note. I care. 000712 ... Tank a psychic lady once told me that i have very deep bonds with my friends. seems to be manifesting itself, that prophesy, because doug's knuckle is bleeding for no apparent reason and oracle is still 'tense' too. 000713 ... neville It's over. 000714 ... Dr Von It used to be so vital To have a hundred of them I knew their names I knew their faces I didn't know them They didn't know me I no longer want to be The centre of popularity The person with an acquaintance For every occasion A new conversation For every celebration The friends I have Are people I can trust To tell me when I'm a fool To tell me when I'm wrong To comfort me Even without words Silence is the mark Of the truest friends Words are easy But the truest friend Can share your silence And share your thoughts You have offered me advice And I've ignored it Though you have the insight Into me that I lack I have offered my help back And known it would be ignored But you have kept me sane Through many a late night talk Sharing wine and sharing life Crying over memories Laughing over tears Wondering over life And I know that I depend Too much on you all in life You are the objectivity Which I lack The wise words and wise thoughts That I can only give A cycle of admission Confession and Cries for help I answer your calls And you answer mine I am never alone 000728 ... Mary I miss you too, Marissa. Alot. 000805 ... Is anyone listening? Anyone? Ummm... don't they grow in the rainforest? 000810 ... oblivion i have friends but none of them are as close a part of me wishes they were and the rest of me wills it so that they are not very close at all. people betray people. i have experienced this. it hurt really bad. i figure it hurt so much because i loved the people that betrayed me and that love and trust made it hurt. if i didnt care about those people it wouldnt hurt as much if at all. "friends" right. i think it is smartest to have aquaintences and allies. you can still hang out and do things like friends to but they dont know about your hopes and fears and secrets. betrayal will happen to everyone but how you prepare for it is up to you. im not letting it happen to me again. 000810 ... Christy I had never gone out with someone who knew so much about me. You had seen me tear-stained and wind-blown, heartbroken and stressed out. I had confessed my continuing adoration of your roommate. You listened when I spoke, praised my creativity, and held me while I cried. It should have been obvious and simple, but it wasn't. I fell on my face a couple more times before finally seeing it was you who offered me help to my feet. 001011 ... akira care only so much 001115 ... Rhin ...know the real you, and love you for it. my best friend of 16 years, is an honorary member of my family, and i hers. we know each other so well, that we finish each others sentences. we had never really thought about how long we had been friends, until recently, and we were amazed. we both still have so much to say to each other. what is even more amazing, is that within the span of 16 years, we have had only one argument. of course, we have differences of opinion & light-hearted disagreements, which is healthy, or else i would have to call her my clone. this sister of mine, knows me better than anyone. at times our relationship has been threatened by outsiders. mostly men, who fear the closeness we have, but we give each other space, and always come back stronger. hey sis, you've cried with me, kicked back with me, and laughed with me, still, you keep on loving me. i love you, even if i don't say it all the time. we're going to grow old together, us as two old biddies, walking all over the city hand-in-hand, smacking our gums together, and reminding the other to pick up the pace...growing old doesn't seem so unwelcome, does it? well hell, i love ya'! 001115 ... Rhin hey girl, major points for that one! she shoots...she scores! i accept my best friend of the year award, with tears in my eyes, thanking no one, but myself (well, except for you)! 001115 ... relic the guy who said 'keep your friends close, and your enemies closer' was a bad man. what a terrible set of intimations come with that idea. 1. Enemies are natural. 2.Life is war etc etc etc 001115 ... chanaka are few and far between...my friends must be time tested, which makes the all the more dear. and the time has not come yet, apparently. soon i hope. online isn't the same. it may be better. but still, i have a phone, and so do my friends. connections. 001115 ... Rhin when i lost him......you were the first person i called. you knew. i didn't have to tell you. you knew it before the phone rang. all you asked was, 'where are you?' remember as teenagers...i would have these terrible dreams about something horrible happening to you, the same time that you would, about me. i would dash down the stairs, grab the phone to call you, and you would already be on the line, calling me... it was the same as that day. i remember how we just sat in your car, staring at my empty house. i was afraid to go in, and you didn't make me. i was so crazy. i rumaged for my camera, and took a million photographs. i wanted to remember how everything looked, the last time he was here. i was in shock that day. i slept so much, and the only thing i remember, when i would stir awake, for those few brief moments, was seeing your face. even though there were other friends stopping in, you were the only one i remember. you left your family to stay with me, and i will never forget that. i know you thought i had lost it, when i started ironing his socks, and his silk boxers, but still, you stuck it out. it was right that you were there at the end, because you were the one who brought us together. you have always been there for me. it's the way it has always been with us. it's the way it will always be. i love you so much, my best friend, ladyg! 001117 ... ladyg Rhin, Rhin, Rhin, where do i begin, cause i know you keep looking back here to see if i have personally handed you the best friend award. I've got to think about it for a few. Yes, it was you that i got drunker than hell, for the first time, on our 17 th birthday, telling each other to shut the fuck up so my dad wouldn't wake up, and i made you eat all those pretzels so you would be quiet, yes, it was you, that I got stoned with, for the first time, and I don't remember, to this day, who's house that was, but I do remember you making me eat toothpaste to get the odor off of my breath, which landed on the side of your car when i spit it out the window. Yes, it was you, that skipped almost all of our senior year, 2nd semister, just so we could do what? I don't even remember what we did. And It was also you, that I walked down the aile with to get that diploma, laughing all the way, wondering how we made it, (think the english teacher had a crush on us) Yes, it was you that I chose over that red headed boy on the bus, dammit, he had a motercycle too. But then again, it was you, who's shoulder I