"Ohana means family in an extended sense of the term, including blood-related, adoptive or intentional. The concept emphasizes that families are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another"

As part of the Hawaiian lifestyle, Ohana is a concept highly praised and highly valued. Ohana is also something that I myself highly value and do my best in living by each and every day. Is there one person in your life whom you instantly connect with the minute you both exchange eye contact? Does your first impression of meeting someone sometimes make you think that they are just going to turn into any hot mess like the rest of the peers you've encountered or known before? Matter of fact, is there that one person you become quick friends and keep in touch with back and forth for a month, three months, a year, ten years even? When life and the busy hectic schedules get in the way, does the universe have its way of connecting you and that person back together? Is it through an hour long phonecall? Liking those fancy Instagram photos of yours? Facebook messaging back and forth for a year, three years, or more?

Thankfully, and luckily, in this technologically advanced world we live in, we are granted and blessed with the numerous tools and outlooks to keep in touch with loved ones, colleagues, acquaintances, strangers, and anybody you can possibly imagine or think of through the beauty and art of social networking (Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter) and the traditional old school methods of email and texting. The friends and people whom you can always keep in contact and reconnect with after not seeing each other for weeks, months, or years even are the best people in your life. Most importantly, they are keepers.

With the busy schedules placed upon each and every person on this earth, it makes it hard at times to try and "make time" to hangout or even take five to ten minutes of your day to make a simple phonecall or text just to say hi and check in. These days, you can't go by a single day without seeing friendships get torn apart from falling outs, betrayal, or just bad communication in general. True friends and Good friends, these days, are hard to find. Let me rephrase that: truly genuinely good people are hard to find.

Those friends you've had in your life for just two to three months, a year, or centuries even, let me say that they are the best damn people in your lives. When someone truly great comes along, cherish them and don't take them for granted. Sometimes they'll end up proving you wrong and test your character and faith in humanity and self-worth. And sometimes, if you're lucky, they can even be the person you end up possibly marrying. Stay humble but most of all, Cherish the friendships you have. You never know what you're gonna miss a year, three years, five years, ten years, or even twenty years down the road.

"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up" Ecclesiastes 4:9-10