When I think of television show theme songs that deal with friends, two shows come to my mind almost instantaneously: "Friends" and "The Golden Girls." I decided to take a look at these lyrics and analyze them. After taking a deep look at the lyrics, I realized that most of them apply to my relationships with my friends. After all, the Golden Girls theme starts off with “Thank you for being a friend, traveled down the road and back again … You’re a pal and a confidant.” The Friends theme song starting with “I’ll be there for you … cause you’re there for me too.”

These songs describe my relationship with most of if not all of my friends. I feel that with a high amount of my friends, I am thankful that I have them as a friend and that they have journeyed with me throughout life and have remained at my side for the length of time that I have known them. However, they have not only been at my side for the time that I have known them but also are people that I enjoy spending time with. Yet above all my friends are some of my closest confidants which are much needed in life especially tight-lipped confidants. The people that I tell things to or confide in, I chose closely and if you betray that trust, you might not get a second chance.

The chorus of the Friends theme song is “I’ll be there for you … cause you’re there for me too.” This makes me realize how lucky I am to have those said friends that are there for me, no matter what just as I am there for them. My friends and I bond over the weirdest things and things that we have in common or we both like at times. It may be how much they dislike their high school basketball coach, a passion for the same sports teams that somehow seem to disappoint their fans every season, a professor going way too fast in a lecture series and then doesn’t post the slides on Blackboard, debating our ability as to who would win a game of Madden, which one in our friend group is the Alpha versus the Omega or even the Beta, our dislike for our professor and /or the class we are in and finally our love for music and musicians that we share like Jon Bon Jovi, and so much more.

I feel so thankful to have friends that I can count on no matter what. I hope that my friends know the same: that I will always be there for them, no matter when it is. I want to thank my friends for being my friend and tell them I’ll be there for them as they are there for me to.