Where Your Friends Are

I would say it's not really in the good times or the bad times that you find out who your true friends are.

It's in the times in between. When you are fighting your way out of the bad times and into the good. It's in the times when you stop putting up with crap from people. When you stop letting people walk all over you. And when you stop watching injustices walk by and actually start doing something about it all.

It's when you get a backbone and actually start standing up for yourself.

That's when you find out which people were there just for what they wanted. And which people were actually there for who you are, whether or not you've fully gotten to it yet.

A true friend is not someone who puts up with your crap or who gives you crap back. It's someone who will wade through all the crap with you, and who also has the guts enough to tell you to stop throwing it around yourself when you do it yourself. :)