"I've got friends that will run through walls I've got friends that will fly once called When I've nowhere left to go And I need my heroes" – The script, "Run Through Walls"

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another" - Proverbs 27:17

Some people are brought into our lives to teach us lessons, others; to help to process and explain these lessons. Either way, we need one another. Just as is stated in proverbs, as iron sharpens iron, so does one person sharpens another. Friends sharpen friends, as well. Friends support one another, love one another and help each other through whichever lesson we need to understand and process. If one falls, the other helps them up; and they do the same for one another every time one falls.

This has been the case with my true and long-time friends, throughout my life; even more so throughout the past several years, that I have spent alone. Without my friends, throughout all of the adversity, I wouldn’t have been able to find peace within the chaos, and solitude inside the aloneness. I couldn’t have done it completely alone. No one can. Two are better than one; and more than two is even better, still. But if two is all that there is, it’s still better than social isolation and complete loneliness; especially for those who have chosen a life of aloneness.

Two or more, can overcome more, create more and do more; together. Two or more can give a friend purpose, where purpose wouldn’t otherwise exist. Two or more can help a friend overcome obstacles, with more ease. Two or more can do things faster, more efficiently, more effectively and with more love. Pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up. Pity the man who doesn’t have a friend; who isn’t a part of ‘two or more’, and doesn’t have a hero, who will walk through walls for him throughout his difficulties. Pity the man who hasn’t been a friend; hasn’t been someone else’s hero when they needed help saving themselves. Pity the man who hasn’t experienced unconditional love and absolute acceptance; just as he is. Pity the man who doesn’t know what it is to have a true friend or to be that kind of friend.

To have a friend, is to have love; that is true, unconditional and unfailing. To have a true and loyal friend, is to have faithful and true companionship with someone who asks nothing in return, and loves you, still. A friend loves you all of the time; through peace and throughout chaos, through happiness and through adversity. To have a true friend, is to have a brother or sister from a different bloodline. To be a friend, is the same. Not to be a friend who loves with conditions, or asks their friends to change, to suit them. To be a friend, is to love others, unconditionally and as they are; where they are and how they are. And to manifest that love in all that one does for their friends. To have a compassionate heart, to be kind, to practice humility and patience with their friends. To be there for them, be patient with them and love them; unconditionally. Just as they would a brother or sister. To give; without the expectation of receiving anything in return, and to find more joy in that giving, than in receiving.

To be a friend that is true, is to be happy for those you call friends; to celebrate with them in times of fruitfulness and joy, and to hold their hearts and hands in times of sorrow and pain. Not to be jealous of what they have or can do, but to see that what they offer is of equal value to you and others, as to what you have to offer, them and other friends, alike.

I am blessed that I have friends like this in my life; friends who feed me; body, mind, heart and soul. I am blessed to have received unconditional love; and even more blessed to have been given the divine gift of giving this kind of unconditional love. I am blessed to have people in my life who would “fly once called”, and who would, “run through walls for me”. I am more blessed, that I have people in my life that I would do the same for, and that I have the privilege of a divine inspiration, that has taught me what being a friend really looks like. I am blessed that I’ve been able to have heroes to help me through my difficulties, but even more so, that I’ve had someone consider me theirs; that they not only allowed me in their lives, but that they allowed me the privilege of getting close enough to them, to be the one they called upon when they needed this kind of friend, themselves.

To have a true friend is a beautiful thing; a blessing. To be a friend, a divine blessing.