Good Friends Are Like Band-Aids

Recently I have come to realize something --good friends are like band-aids. Before this will make sense, I have to back track. We know that in order to get to know someone, you have to make yourself vulnerable. Actually, both parties have to make themselves vulnerable if the relationship is going to become anymore than a surface level cordial friendship. In order for this to happen you have to remove the coverings that carefully disguise and hide the most tender parts of your soul. When you decide to reveal those tender parts of your being, you place a great amount of trust in that person. You trust that they will protect your open wounds and sores and not pile dirt into them. You hope that they will help you and not hurt you. When you find a good friend that's exactly what they do. If they're really good, they'll protect you. They'll be like a band-aid to your wounds --sticking with you, trying to make it better, and trying to keep out anything that could hurt you. I believe that is why we become anxious when things are not right between us and someone we are close to; we are afraid that they will rip the band-aid off and leave us hurting and vulnerable. A good friend wouldn't do that because good friends are like band-aids, not the doctor who pries them off.