How do you define friendship.... I'm asking this question because while at the beauty salon this weekend the topic of true friendship came up. Friends, how many of us have them, but the true question is how many of us have people that we can call true friends. This came to me as I overheard two ladies talking while in the hair salon. They were talking quite loud about a friend of theirs who was buying her first home. The two of them went on and on about the house she was trying to purchase, why she couldn't afford it, why she would fail, and how they couldn't wait. While attending Lakewood Church, pastor Joel Olsten would always talk about encouraging others (family and friends) to set their goals and accomplish them. I believe each of us has a plan or dream that we want to accomplish, but are often unable to complete them because we get caught up in the negativity from others that block our full potential. In life, sometimes success requires us to look at who's in our corner, because sometimes those that claim to care about us could just be the ones we don't need in our corner. I've been very fortunate to have a circle of friends that are loyal and trustworthy. We always encourage and support each other by giving truthful advice, providing emotional support, as well as financial if we can, and most of all keeping a positive attitude while cheering that person on. Whether it be buying a house, car, trying to launch a business like myself, or changing careers, we are there for each other. I'm not saying that friends never disagree because they do, but true friendships should be strong enough that you can talk about anything, and work things out. Our discussion on this topic was quite lenghty, and everyone didn't agree, but it was a interesting conversation. Tell me what you think.
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Friendship....First of all I would like to congratulate Honeychild on her blogazine. I'm glad you chose friendship to discuss as your first topic. You took the meaning of friendship away from the dictionary and used it as it should be. Many of us forget who we are and forget how to treat people for several reasons. Perhaps some of our parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, never taught us how to be a friend and for that reason we are unsure when someone is a genuine friend to us. Some of us have never experienced true friendship inside our homes and that’s where it should start. If you have kids or play a role in a child life you should add friendship to the never ending list of things you would love that child to be great in. It’s very important.
I think each person has approximately 2 people in their lives they can consider to be a friend. I don't believe in true friends personally because a large amount of so called friends envy those who do strive for any kind of economic gain and do it successfully. I also think that some who may be a so called or semi-true friend (notice I used "semi") may have seen their friends go from one extreme to the next. Maybe the semi-true friends in the hair salon as mentioned in the article were not as positive about hearing their friend talk about the things she wanted such as her first home or goal, knew it was all talk. So it could be that those friends who talked about how she would fail, might know more about the friends past or history. Maybe they knew that she was a person who didn't have staying power, or enough motivation to finish little goals or projects. So their perception was negative towards her for wanting something larger such as her first home. They probably thought that this is just another dream of hers that she will talk about......and then....later...come up with an excuse on how she changed her mind and then let it fall by the wayside.
Loves the site Honeychild!
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