Diamonds

Every so often you meet amazing people

People who fascinate you, inspire you, and make you want to be better.

The future holds all these amazing individuals but there is still something so dear about the people from your past.

The people who remember your middle school hair catastrophes,

Who comforted you after your first love ended,

Who can reminisce about that time your sister...

Those people are diamonds.

They may not start off as diamonds but what increases their value is time.

The people of the future could be millionaires but they will never out value a story about your grandmother from a diamond friend. 

It takes time to develop something so precious,

Something from the 18 fleeting years that took forever to occur.

If you are lucky enough to have a jewel from that era, you should treat it as the value it is.

Far too often we sigh at phone calls,

Or fret about those plane tickets.

But just as fleeting as those 18 years were, so is the rest of the future. 

When I think about fullfillment I don't envision that million dollar home,
The foreign car in the garage,
Or the perfectly kept lawn.
Instead I envision people. 

If someday I am lucky enough to reminisce with you about our mothers and talk about our grandchildren I will consider myself the wealthiest woman in the world. 

To get to that point will take effort. 
It will take dedication. 
It means working that full time job, building a family, but never forgetting the first foundation I built in adolescence.

I want to cherish these people. I want to make sure I use my time wisely.

I want to make sure I value our friendship, the whole journey through.

I want to make sure I treat my diamond friends as the treasures that they are. 

When it all ends,

I would much rather have diamond friends than all the jewels in the world.