Last night I was driving home and heard the song 'You find out who your friends are', and it really made me start thinking. This seems to be a common trend when moving to new duty stations... you meet a whole lot of people right off the bat; some will stick around, some you will find more differences than similarities and then some just fall of the face of the earth after a while. At first this drove me crazy, but then I can to the realization that some people are worth your effort and time and others just simply are not.
I guess this is part of the process when moving from place to place. You will keep a few friends close from your last location - maybe the person that helped you when you were sick and your husband was gone, or the friend who helped make the deployment more bearable. You simply find out who your true friends are. It's great to have a lot of friends, but I honestly would rather have a few friends that are true to me than having a lot of friends that are hit and miss.
My bottom line has become if someone causes stress or drama in my life - they aren't worth my time. I have some awesome Army wife friends who are fun to hang out with, are willing to help if it's needed and they don't add stress and drama to my life. From now on, those are going to be the people that I keep around...everyone else can take their drama, self-centerness, etc and go somewhere else.
