A true friend will tell you any way she can when she thinks you're making bad choices, and she'll argue and cry and listen and try to understand. And whether she's wrong or you're wrong, it doesn't matter. She'll cry tears over you on your shoulder. A true friend knows that making your own mistakes is important so she'll watch you make them, without judgment.

I need to fail, I need to get hurt, I need to fall down once or twice before I can find my footing in this life, and I know my friends will be there to brush away the dirt on my knees and the tears in my eyes at the end of the day.