Loyalty and a Few Laughs

The other day I was talking to an old friend I had fallen out of touch with. She's the kind of person that will have her head in the clouds one minute, only to come crashing down in a tailspin of emotion over the smallest thing. She was extremely emotionally unstable, and her life had no foundation at all. She was not a good person to grow close to and confide in. So I silently cut the cord to our friendship.

But it wasn't all bad. We had some really good times together. When she was in a good mood, she was a fun person to be around and a good friend to talk to.

It's funny how willing we are sometimes to overlook all the bad in a friendship for just a few moments of laughter with that person. I came out of that friendship pretty badly burned, but talking to her for even a few minutes the other day still put me in a good mood. I automatically looked past all the bad and chose to remember the few good times.

I won't be trying to breathe life into the friendship again; she's still crazy and still unstable. But while talking to her, I saw something in the way humans are built that I've never paid much attention to before: the amount of loyalty we feel and the amount of tolerance we allow ourselves to feel for a friend we've shared a few laughs with.