Friendship

What a blessing friendship is. I grew up with a twin sister, which is fabolous and fun, if you're NOT a twin!! My sister and I would both be millionaires right now if we were paid a quarter for every time someone walked up to us and said, "are ya'll twins?" After some years went by and we got older we started coming up with our own lines to say, like no we are just really great friends, we get that a lot but no, to just flat out saying NO WE ARE NOT TWINS!! When you grow up as a twin you tend to get lost in each other. We were always grouped together like we were one person. We have had to share clothes, birthday presents, or for that matter any present, and even birthday cakes (the one time we got one). We were never classified as Doris and Dona, no we were "the twins", "the girls". Growing up was pretty frustrating for both of us. I am now glad to say that I have come on the other side of that and I have really stepped into my own. I am Doris, just Doris, do I have a twin? Yes but we are two individual people. When we were growing up we were inseparable. I didn't have any friends growing up it was Dona and me. Dona had friends and I was always the tag along. My junior year of high school I had my very first friend. The first friend outside of Dona. It was a good experience and I learned a lot in the process. Then as I went into college Dona and I went our separate ways. We had different things we wanted to do. I went to college and started making my own friends. It was a hard process I had to go through. I wasn't always the good friend, I was having to learn how to be a friend when everyone else learned it as kids. I am now happy to say that I can stand up and say that I am a good friend to the people I am in relationship with. And I have some amazing friends!! My life is blessed because of them!!! So today I want to think on friendship and the blessing that it has been to my life!!!!