Friends and Pain

Recently I have been chasing around in my mind the reasons that we have friends and people that surround us when they cause pain for us at some time. This may be seen as an adolescent issue, which to an extent, I agree with. As for my posed question, I believe that we have friends for multiple reasons. They can range anywhere from you have known them your whole life, you have the same hobbies, you want to be loved, or even just to not be alone. Whatever your reason to have friends, you have them and most people refuse to lose them. They become precious after a certain point. To put it bluntly, all people hurt others. This is not always and probably not usually intentionally either. Intentional or not, it happens. Life goes on without friends, right? Right. So why do we cling on to people that hurt us? Why do we long so much for those people who may claim "I will never do anything to betray your trust" or "I will never hurt you" or my favorite one "I will never leave you"? I believe that we have friends and have faith in them because we find people that "click" with us and our personalities. We find people who we can have fun with and at the same time be serious with when needed. You have to be able to trust your friends when you are hurt, but how can you trust someone that has hurt you. I believe that we are all just looking for someone that validates us or that we can have and that if we can find that, sometimes we are able to overlook mistakes. Why do we overlook our own pain though? Why do we "forgive & forget" when there are millions of other people in this world who could be our friend? It's because we have found someone that we cannot give up because no matter how much they hurt you, they have grown a place in our heart. This is an odd and scattered post, but it is where my mind is at. So I will continue to love my friends no matter how much they hurt me because they are important to me and no matter how much they hurt me, I always want to be able to help them. I want them with me in my life so that not only can they be there for me, but I can ALWAYS be there for them. The pain they cause will never overpower the love that I have for them. Basically, I love my friends. <3