Friendships

Are old friendships really worth it? I recently became friends with an old friend that was once my best friend! After years of only talking to her here & there, we stopped being friends with no explanation from her at all. Now that we are friends again, I think I am realizing how one sided our friendship was in the past. I have always had a hard time letting this friend go, we seemed so much a like but were we really? I am always there for my friends, I listen, I talk, I make them laugh & try to make them see the whole picture... I, often try to make them see a different side so they can see the whole picture in order to find the answers they need, but may not want to learn... Sometimes I think I have grown & others have not, as if they have stayed in the age group as when we were friends in the past... Maybe I have changed, not necessarily for the better but they are at a stand still in life... I believe that God allows friendships in your life sometimes for certain reasons, much like a season! How do you determine which friendship to hold on to & which ones to let go of & when? I, often times hold on when at times, I feel as if I should let go... If I let go, am I really a good friend? Then there are the times that I don't feel as if I am a friend at all because I never hold back what I have to say... I talk to friends in ways that I wouldn't allow someone to talk to me & am I wrong for being that brutal or am I just that honest? I also have my flaws as a friend, I speak when I shouldn't, ignore when I should listen & rude when I should be nice... I know that over all, I try to be the best friend that anyone can have... I try to be the friend that I would want someone to be to me, but do I achieve that goal, not always but all we can do is try...