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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Friendship





    The thing most important after one's mate and children are friends! This is a topic that can go one way or another.  Some women will say sure they have plenty of friends, while others will be very specific and say that they have more male friends than female. When asked why there will be a variety of reasons but the ones that intrigue me the most are women are catty, women are jealous; other women want what I have.
     Yes, some of this is true but it isn’t true of all women.  Could these characteristic be ones that you pass on or label on other women because of some bad life experience or are these your personal character flaws?  Could this be the residual effects of your own personal insecurities?  Is this a legacy that you have inherited from grandmother, mother then pass down to your daughter? Is this the mental and verbal abuse of your spirit when you were a girl?
     Friendship is a connection where people are going the same direction either moving forward, moving backwards or just maintaining.  Friendship should be mutually beneficial to all parties involved.   Great advice, good listener, helpful, supportive, trustworthy, loyal, honest, respectful,dependable: these are qualities of a friend.  What prevents us from being good friends: jealously, self loathing, insecurities, selfish, narcissistic, low self-esteem and the list can go on?
    Do you know what friendship is?  Think on that, with that being said....do on to others as you want others to do on to you. What type of friend are you? Are you the type of person that you would be friends with? Are there some things that you are willing to change to become a better friend? Do you value your friendships?  Do you believe that your friendship is valuable or impacts your friend(s) positively or negatively?
      Friendships to change, grow and dissipate.  Sometimes the friends that we have no longer really "connect" for whatever reason.  It happens and there isn't a need to be upset about it, it is a part of life. It doesn't mean that your love has changed for this person.  It does mean that you could be going into different directions, life changes or whatever it is.  True friendship NEVER is gone, you will reconnect.
  This is a new year and everyone is saying that they are making improvements and changes. Why not make this one of those changes?


     
     
             





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