good friends=good times

1. unpacked and uploaded pics of the nyc trip. it was so fun and a perfect way to start out 2010! again, referring to my first post, I have a lot of hope and excitement for this new year (and decade). my 20th year on this planet is all set to be promising.
2. had lunch with one of my besties. good food (why does my life revolve around food? see previous post), good friends, cold weather!
3. had dinner with the family and watched star trek for the second time. chris pine is who I pine for (get the corny joke?). it made me want to go back and watch all the old star trek episodes. maybe in all my free time (that doesn't exist, but maybe my alternate reality self has free time and can watch them for me?).

as the title may suggest, as well as my second groovy thing that happened today, tonight's post is about friendship. connections with other people, be it through friendship, marriage, business, random meetings, etc., have propagated human existence. isn't it weird to think about all the people in the past who met and talked and engaged in some way to make up each individual on this planet? but that is a bit too broad of a scope for this post (note to self: write about history later).
I am an independent person, but friends are people I cannot live without. some friends, I have had since before elementary school started or day one (or two) of kindergarten. one friend in particular, I was close with from kindergarten up until midway through high school. we eventually drifted apart, which was hard for me. while we are still friends, it's nothing like we used to have. another friend, the day two friend, and I have been close since then. while we don't talk every day or spend a lot of time together, I still consider him to be a best friend. it's one of those relationships in which stuff just...works. it's hard to explain, but I think he understands, if no one else does. and college, oh boy, I met some of my bffl (you know who you are). and even leading up to college, I became close with two people who I wasn't uberclose with before college, but I now consider to be some of my best friends. another friend I only actually started to talk to in high school, and through some random turns of events, we became best friends. he is my rock and I know he will be a friend for life. so while friends may leave life and drift away, new ones always enter. no friendship can be replaced, and old ones will always hold places in the heart, but new friends open ample doors for new memories and new good times. and I wish I could post a picture of all my friends, but that is impossible, so a random internet picture will have to suffice.