Friendship is a funny thing when you get older.

Throughout life, you meet so many people. Some become lifelong friends, some are there for a season, and others are people you genuinely care about but only seem to connect with when you have something in common.

Maybe it's work, your kids, a shared struggle, a hobby, or simply a certain chapter of life that brought you together.

And I've come to realize that not every friendship is built on constant communication. Some friendships exist because two people crossed paths at exactly the right time and shared something meaningful.

But it also makes you wonder… If that one thing you had in common disappeared tomorrow, would the friendship still exist?

Would you still check in? Would you still make an effort? Would you still want to know how that person is doing, even when your lives no longer overlap?

I think as we get older, we start to recognize the difference between having something in common with someone and having a genuine connection with them.

Neither makes the memories any less meaningful, but there's something special about the people who choose to remain in your life even when there's no longer a shared reason to be there.

Because sometimes friendship begins with common ground, but genuine friendship grows beyond it. 💚

Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 (KJV) “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”