ink that true friendship and love are one in the same. I also believe that the word "love" has lost it's true meaning throughout time. If the person that says they love you will not stand in a fire with you during your hardest times but walks away or retreats inside themselves for self preservation and only comes back when the fire is out, that is not love that is a passion of convenience and it will run it's course and be gone.... and for the better. Love is the strongest emotion because it has no boundaries and if someone truly loves you and you truly love them...be it friend or lover...there is no greater high in the world. Your pain is their pain and their pain is your pain and the same with happiness and joy and your love for them and their love for you is never measured by how much effort it takes or whether it is convenient. To live your whole life without experiencing that is only a life, it is not living. I've learned A lot in a very short time about how dark the world can be in one minute and how beautiful the light of the rainbow is at the end of the storm in the very next minute....