Who Is Your Best Freind?

The Mishanah says "purchase a friend for yourself". Invest time, energy (money?), anything it takes to have a meaningful friendship.

In Hayom Yom this statement is interpreted to mean "the pen shall be your friend. (The Hebrew word KINEH means purchase while KANEH means quill).

I am reading a book that is a collection of essays from different writes on the question "why I write". Some of their reasons are more interesting then others.

Here is my reason, I write because we are friends.

We like to spend time together. We like to hear each others opinions and feelings. When I am in a bad mood I know I have a friend who I can go to who wont ask me "why are you putting me in a bad mood?". When I get lucky he will truly be happy for me, I don't have to worry about him being jealous. If I want to share a taught, to get a friends reaction and a second opinion, I just write it down and the page gives me the most honest feedback I can expect to get.

So like any other friendship it's hard to define exactly why we spend so much time together. Or why we share so many secrets. But the most important thing is, we know that as true friends we will always be there for each other.