Would Your Friend Do This.........?

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Would your best friend show up in the middle of the night with a chicken in each hand and DEMAND you wake up and cook them? Now remember - you've just taken an overdose and the last thing you want to hear is some redneck talk when you're already halfway to listening to the Angel choirs of Heaven! I have a friend who did just that. She saved my life and I owe her more than I can every repay. And she's here on the lot so be nice to her or I'll have to hunt you down and ....................(insert torture of choice)! Anyway, what I really want to know, is do you have off line friends like that? Someone willing to brave the storms of h*ll for you no matter what the cost to them? What about your online friends? Do you think the connections you make online which seem so true, so deep, would translate with the same intensity and depth into 'real' life? Or do the loss of those connections for whatever reason, eventually mean the fading away of your feelings towards them? Online friendships have more 'layers' than real life. There are so many sites where you build friends lists and yet never really interact with even a fraction of those people. So are they really your friends? And then there are those you interact with on the site all the time. But again - off site, out of mind? A further step is those you find on a site that you begin to exchange emails with - phone calls, small gifts and maybe even arrange a meeting sometime in the 'future'. How deep is that friendship really? Online we say we love our friends all the time. And we mean it. Really we do! But it makes me wonder if this modern invention of instant access, hasn't rendered in a certain way, the meaning of love and friendship as now being rather shallow. Love and friendship used to be a dance of personalities either hormonally or pheromonally attracted to each other. Now, it's words on a screen that do the dance. Personally, I find that rather sad. But then, I'm old school. Very old school. I would still rather write with quill and ink on parchment, than type on a plastic keyboard. As a favorite author of mine recently wrote "the suspense of life is gone". Now before you all start thinking - spark is a phony, spark has lost it, spark doesn't love me.... "STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE, and don't you break my heart! Think oooover!" I have given this a lot of thought. I have made and lost many friends over the past few years online. I regret each loss but barely remember their names. And yet there are a few, who despite time and place, remain with me and in contact with me, and to me they are the heart of my connection to life itself. They are friends in the truest sense of the 'real world' word. They have been, through their emails and phone calls, stalwarts of support and outpourings of love and prayer circles in my darkest hours. I would not be here and able to spread some love and laughter without them. And I have never met, face to face, any of them. I don't even know what most of them look like. I don't care either. They reached out and touched me, and I was forever changed by that. I miss them when they are absent from my life for more than a day. And nearly all of these people came from right here. Mylot. This site has magic people. Revel in it. Nurture it. Make friends - real friends. Go to the wall on and off site for them if there is a need. Cherish your chance to spread some love and laughter of your own.