To say that wisdom comes with age is a myth. I’ve known a lot of people and seen a lot of things. While I would never claim to have wisdom, I do possess a great deal of experience.
It has been said, and I trust, based on experience, that it is true. If on your deathbed it takes one hand to count your true friends, you are incredibly fortunate.
I hope you never have to learn who your real, through thick and thin, friends are. Because the reality may be startling.
Relationships, which we refer to as friendships, you may find, as I have, are at times based on what is solely a shared interest for a period of time. It may be a situation of mutual benefit. Or it may be transactional.
You may scoff, as I would have at one time, but I’ve learned that the realities of these situations do not come to light until the relationship has been severed.
It’s not by any means a pleasant truth, I’ll give you that. It’s unnerving, and it’s painful.
