Best Friends

Best Friends. We throw that word around too easily. What is a best friend? Do we see them every day? Do we talk to them constantly? No, our lives are too messed up to do any of that. No, friendship is in the whenever. You can be out of touch for years and meet or speak and immediately you are in sync. You make each other mad, you make each other cry, you make each other laugh. When you part, who hope the next meeting is soon. And sometimes there is no next time. And you cry and then you realize that you can still talk. You don't know if your best friend is listening but you hope so. You may never hear that great laugh again but it lives in your heart. The thought of that smile will make you smile as long as you can smile. And you live with the hope that there is a hereafter and that if there is you know that Bill will be there, smoking a cigar, reading a good book, and laughing at something stupid you did. Love you kid. My best friend.