You've got a friend in me

Somehow, one post, one day, once a week is just not satisfying.
So instead I've elected to do two posts in one day, once a week-ish...
also, I've decided that I should make a very basic
characer list for you:
__________ -typically means insert my (as in the author) name here.
self-my very best friend who has become a part of me.
cowboy/bf^2-a friend of mine...  actually my best friend squared...  sups tots adorbs yo.
math buddy-a fabulous friend I met in math this past school year, she's also great friends with cowboy.
thief-a friend of mine who is very good friends with self...  sometimes drives everyone crazy, but he knows we all love him.
So as you may have guessed, I was planning on talking about
FRIENDS [cue the music]
Everyone's gotta have 'em, no one can survive without 'em.

(First off, before I get into too much trouble, my dear friends, if you were not on that basic character list, please do not be offended!  These are simply the people that will probably come up most, because I deal with them the most.  I have many people I could've put on the list, but the names are incredibly hard to come up with [as you can tell by my level of creativity there...] and even harder to keep track of.  I love you all just as much though, I promise.)

As someone very famous{William Butler Yeats} once said:
"there are no strangers here; only friends you haven't met"
(obviously, mr. Yeats had never heard of the so-called 'stranger danger', but the message is still valuable)

Over the past few months I've given this topic quite a bit of thought.  Some of my dearest friends feel like they have none at all, and they couldn't be more wrong.  

A considerably more famous{C.S. Lewis}(at least to the younger generation and christian society) man once said:

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship... All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilites, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” 

I believe what this beloved author stated to be so very true.  These people we all interact with are so spectacular, so amazing, and yet some still choose to cast them aside as naught but a nuisance.  I find it an incredulous folly to let anyone be pushed aside.  If people only took the time to know them, they might find a treasure, but instead, they discard them as trash.  
Not cool.
so on that very different note, 
adios!
sayonara!
and You're so very welcome,
___________________