Popularity is a strange thing. Often its coming and going are chance issues of saying the right thing or being in the right place at the right time. Overnight practically everyone can love you, defer to you and pull out the red carpet and it can be lost equally easily. Even if our personal respect can last a lifetime it is still a relatively short time. Respect and trust are much harder things to gain or earn and a close friend even harder. But true friends are those that remain long after it has gone from fashion and remain to love the real you, and with whom you can totally relax, as opposed to a finely honed image. One of those and you are fortunate, severel is extra special and far more important than fleeting fame and fortune.