If I were to go crazy, would you still be there for me?  If you were to go crazy would I still be there for you?  How real is a friendship if it is only based on conditions?  What makes a person love someone else?  Usually it begins with personality, or similarity, sometimes kindness or generosity, other times being able to have fun together, or reasoning similarly.  Sometimes it is seemingly destined when found in family or the work place, or some find fast friends as roommates.  Occasionally a friendship is simply formed to avoid boredom or loneliness rather than out of shared commonalities.  My question then is, once the friendship has been stable and constant for some time, if something drastic occurs that changes what originally formed the friendship, will the friendship die?  If so is that because it wasn't a true friendship and was based on conditions?  If that's the case I think true friendships are a rarity in today's world.  People are friends because they fill a need for each other.  If that need ceases to be filled the friendship often fails.  Things aren't as simple as they were when I was a child.  As a kid, to be a friend all you have to do is say "hi" to a person and learn each others' names.  Nowadays it requires more because being older we have become more selfish and irritable. 

I realized today that everything- and I mean EVERYTHING- eventually changes.  Rocks crumble, metals rust or corrode, balloons pop or deflate, food rots, clouds blow over, rivers evaporate, mountains erode, stars fall, fires die, paint chips, tunnels end, shoes wear out, fabric rips and stains, we age and wrinkle, maps develop, things vanish, and friendships almost always eventually fade away. 
So what's to be done?  Sometimes I can't help but be angry at the world for being so weak and flimsy.  It just doesn't seem to hold up too well, and neither do any of the rest of us.  I want to bask in the comfort of yesterday, angry with today and tomorrow when they supposedly offer so many opportunities. 
The funny thing about all of this is that I of all people should be more than content.  I always thrive off change and variety more than others, am thrilled to move and meet new people, or take part in any new or strange experience... Perhaps it is because I am still running away from losing my yesterdays.