If I have no friends, who am I?

So I've had a very interesting and eventful past couple of weeks. Whoa! It feels like I had a crash course in Damie 101. This isn't necessarily a bad thing seeing as I'm at that point in my life where if I don't already know who I am, then I'll never know. It was a rude awakening to say the least, rude for myself and certain people in my life. On one episode I watched of those investigative criminal series, to figure out the nature/substance of an item, they had to burn it. I have been through the fire and I'm made from quite surprising stuff!

I was initially going to attempt writing a list of the things I have learned but I'm a bit too lazy for that. I know what they are in my heart of hearts and what I need is to be true to myself and who I am. My confidence in what I know combined with the grace of God building the right character in me assures me that I'll be okay and makes an otherwise scary and confusing phase more manageable.

The one thing I want to address though is the issue of friends. Once someone who had a lot of friends and was quite the extrovert. I find that I now have fewer words, am less likely to be in the middle of all the chaos and would rather be engaged in conversation with myself. Attributes that are ofcourse...(well maybe not "ofcourse") not conducive to maintaining friendships. The number of friends I maintain is less than 5 and I put less than appropraite effort into cultivating those relationships. Not because I don't love them but because in some cases I'd much rather be quiet, in some others, the chemistry just isn't there or I just am no longer the person I used to be, I have in a sense evolved out of the relationship.

The good book says "show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are", if I now have no friends, who am I? I guess in my case, the person I am could lie in the fact that my friends are dropping like flies. I realise that this could be a negative thing but of course, I'll keep praying and definately try to be the best I can as well as remembering to always do what Jesus would!