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Originally Posted by JoeC1947
I find at this age it's very difficult to make good friends. Friendships need time to grow into friendships. I'm not talking about casual friends like the people I play golf with or meet at the pool, I'm talking about those truly special friends that will listen to your problems without judging you, and accept you as you are even with your bad habits, drop everything because you need their help, get angry with you but love you enough to talk it out. I am blessed to have two such friends in my life, my wife and my friend Gary.
To answer the question, I don't think that there is anyone that I wouldn't give friendship a chance with just because they, drink, smoke, did something wrong in the past and are sorry for now, are black or white, are loud or judgmental.
You just never know.
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I do have to disagree with your first statement. I have life long friends from first grade but the friendships I have formed over the past year and a half with my neighbors are right up there in the same category. We have very special bonds, we share our ups & downs, we laugh together and yes on many occasions we have cried together.
I am pretty much like everyone else, I love to laugh and joke around. I tend to give everyone a chance. I don't discuss politics or religion. I am a "social" golfer and I don't mind if you discuss golf...but surely there are other topics you can discuss at times. I don't really like people who discuss how much money they have, or how much they paid for everything. I don't care if you are rich or poor, black, white, red or yellow, fat, thin...whatever....I try not to judge anyone. As someone else said, people have made mistakes in the past so I will give them a chance too.
Don't come at me with "attitude" and we will get along just fine.
