who is a friend? there are so many things that we expect a friend to be - loyal, devoted, trustworthy, dependable, to be there in times of trouble, in time of ease, in time of sorrow, in times of joy...

Is this what real friends are meant to be?
Through the passage of life, we meet many people. Most, sadly, come into our lives and leaves quickly. Alas, there are but few, who enter, and leave a footprint in our hearts and remain forever.
Through history, philosophers and poets have defined friends in so many ways.
A friend is someone who is there when others walk out.
A friend is one who knows all about you, and still likes you.
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
A friend is one who knows more about you than yourself and still loves you.
A friend's hand is always there... you just haveto reach for it.
A friend is like a wall. Sometimes you lean on the wall and sometimes, it is just enough to know it's there.
We expect all that of friends, but how many friends do we really have?
The kind who do not walk in and out but who remain constant, and are there whenever you need them.

" My father used to say that when you die. if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." Former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca once said what many of us believes to be true.

Wise words. Because there are many who claim to be friends and many whom we call friends. But if you can list the qualities most important to you in a friend, you will find, like Iacocca's father said, that you would be lucky if you could count 5 real friends...

"We always thougt we'd look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we'd look back on our laughter and cry"

I find it useful... thanks KMH.