Recently I found myself thinking about how many of my close friends from the past and even currently, are not the ones who I always agree with but most often the ones who I’ve agreed to disagree with. The ones I often had long conversations with are not those who agree with everything I say but most often the ones who totally disagree but we never felt the need to “win the argument” but just accept each others views.Perhaps my thoughts were brought on my memories of my best friend in college, a guy who probably the first 1.5 years of college I couldn’t stand him (the feeling was mutual). An annoying habit I had back then was that I would walk out when I got irritated, a huff n a puff and I would be gone. And whenever this guy would be around, I usually walked out of the room because of something he said. At some point, we had a long conversation which fastened our friendship and he is honestly the best friend I could have ever had. He was possibly the first best friend who believed in me and in college, that wasn’t really a stage of life where I believed in myself.Ten laters later, stuff happened, or as I say it “Life happened” and we didn’t stay friends after college. But I still hold him close in heart as one of my few by far best friends. There are many times when I miss him, his friendship, his honesty that irritated me to the core many a time but always kept me in place, how he stood up for me, how he just cared. And he truly was the kind of friend who that line “Sometimes the best conversations are the ones where you don’t say a thing to each other”is so apt for.Missing all my best friends, old and new, wish I could have them all close by. But thank the Lord that I had the chance for these wonderful friendships with these amazing people.