Friendship

What is it that causes us to consider one person a friend, and another an acquaintance? Or to give one person more of ourselves than another? Why do we hold back? Burned, hurt we recoil. And yet there is something within us that determines to press on. Some,it seems, you connect with immediately. Others take a bit of work, but are worthwhile as well. The ones who touch our heart are the ones who spark us to greater things. They are people I want to be like when I grow up.