A Microwave Friend

Friends are hard to come by. Why do we lack friends? Where have all the friends gone?

Has our generation followed the path with friendship that we have taken with food? I am serious! Think about it. Ours is a generation dependent upon convenient substitutes.

When I was a little girl and went to visit my grandpa, he would set me on the kitchen counter and let me watch him make popcorn in the popcorn machine. Those special times with grandpa and the popcorn machine were not to last. The problem is not my having grown too big to be sat on the counter. My grandpa discovered the convenience of microwave popcorn. It is easy, cheap and quick.

Now, when I go to visit my grandpa, he has me put a bag in the micro and nuke it. I eat the popcorn but I look around the kitchen and there's no grandpa with me. It only takes one to stick a bag of popcorn in the microwave. I miss those precious moments of making popcorn with grandpa.

Our generation has made a convenient substitute for a true friend. We might call someone our friend, but do we even know what a true friend is? My definition of a good friend is someone with whom you can do nothing. You need no scheduled activities in order for your friendship to work just each other. We don't really know our "friends" anymore. We know what kind of stuff they like to do but do we know what they are like?

Friendship is having a relationship that stays strong no matter what circumstances you're in. True friendship takes time, love, and self sacrifice. I'm tired of just okay friendships. I want the real thing. Are you willing to give up the ease and convenience of microwave friends to really spend time talking with someone and getting to know them? Or has our culture already warped our brains into thinking that we don't really need true friends? Are we willing to sacrifice ourselves to help someone else?

We all need friends. It's time to lay aside our phony friendships and start building true ones. Do it now, or one day we'll all look back and realize that we gave up real popcorn for the microwave stuff. "A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24

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Contributed by Jennifer Cadle, Age 15.