Valley Girl

I was walking the other day and heard one girl exclaim to someone on her phone,
"oh my gosh! No way! Oh yea, she's my BFFL but I don't want anything to do with her best friend Michaela!"
And I thought to myself, "BFFL?"
What the hell?
I slowly had to mentally decipher it as if it was some foreign language.
Once I did, I couldn't help but chuckle and smile to myself at her choice of terminology.
Best friend for life? REALLY?
Ain't that a funny sociology.
Hell, i thought. Family ain't even for life!
Maybe trouble for life, or the struggle for life.
A specific passion for life, or hustle for life, even!
but best friend for LIFE?! I don't know about all that.
A few weeks after, hangin with friends, realized I had started calling them bro.
As we were talking about life, I realized how different it would be without them.
It finally hit me.
A nomad has no clue what that is because life is just bout you and surviving.
Been told you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but here I am at a behavior school called life.
Playin games with me, playin me while getting played by me.
Maybe I was right while being wrong.
Ain't no friend for life, but I don't know if life woulda been the same without them.
We got the story of the Eagle who saw himself as a chicken because that's what his friends told him!
and ain't nothin sadder than a friend who's dead to you!
a friend who's betrayed you
a friend who said no more OF you!
And ain't nothin more powerful than the friend who tells you to fly!
Who sees YOU and pushes you to climb evermore high!
There is nothin stronger than having a crew that all wants to grow.
Seeing life not as a ladder to be climbed, but an eternal arena for evolving.
Where you learn to fight, and to embrace your eternal being.