However, as I grow, time goes by and life changes, I’ve learned that there is another test of friendship I never really knew about. It goes something like this: you find out who your friends are when everything is going right, and you are having the time of your life. Why? I’ve come to discover only the people that truly love you completely will be genuinely happy for you when all things wonderful come your way.
When you truly love someone, whether a friend or a significant other, you love them in the good times and bad. We are taught to think the “bad times” are the really important part when I actually think it’s not. It takes a very soulless and heartless person to not be compassionate towards someone, to not put their arm around them when they cry, or to not tell them something sweet when they are having a bad day. And yet it takes a very big person to be genuinely happy for a friend when they’re “walking on sunshine.”
Sometimes it's hard to celebrate something great that is happening to someone else when you wish it were happening to you instead. I've had those moments of weakness when I am disgusted with myself for having such thoughts. It really took God breaking me to realize how poisonous those thoughts are. You should stop looking at life through the scope of, "what others have and I don't" and instead be grateful for your own blessings and know your time will come.
Once you find happiness with your life and where it's heading, you will truly and genuinely, from the bottom of your heart, be happy for your friends and all the wonderful things that come to them. Celebrate the successes of your friends as if they were your own. They will be there to do the same for you when it's your turn."
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