Have you ever met someone in your life who seemed to be exactly the person you were searching for and didn't even know you were? Friendships, the ones who step out from behind the tree and into your path.......they are like that. Friendships are not made.......friendships are discovered sometimes right when we need them.
To thrive is to know deep down you are loved. To feel alive is to know you matter to someone. To discover a friend is to discover a new reflection.
ps. perhaps a new friend is awaiting to be found today. I have finally posted a few links on my sidebar to some of my blogfriends, and will continue to add on as I can. Why don't you check one their sites out .......... you just may find someone out there whom you would like to walk a mile with.
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Friendships our indeed a glorious part of our journey. People come and go from our life with purpose. The key is to have the awareness to recognize their purpose. Good post.
hey Mark! I do hope there are some who are there til the bitter end. :)
Having moved right after university I lost contact with many friends whom I journeyed with throughout those academic years.....the purpose was clear and i honestly don't know if i would've kept in touch with him had i lived closer.
the friends we have gathered around us where i live now are a group of very special people. most of us live away from family. we are family to one another. they were amazing when my husband was ill this spring....their love and actions allowed him to relax and heal and allowed me a chance to continue with my plans to go to England to meet up with new friends. We are all congregating this weekend for potluck and wine and summer fun......looking forward to it.
Also, I love now how i am reconnecting with some of my camp counsellor days friends......20-25 year gaps and now we're finding our way back together. It has been so life affirming and timely too.
the friends whom I have met through blogging are very special to me indeed..... and i know with some the connections are lifelong. i can't imagine my life without them in it now.
ooops.......i should proofread before i publish a comment....
i meant to write "kept in touch with THEM...." don't know who the "him" was meant to be, but i'm sure papa Freud would have something to say about that little slip. :)
friends are special and you're so right, you just never know when or where they are going to come from... I like that...
I like that blogging has opened my world outwards in a way that it wouldn't have ~ it is indeed hard to imagine life without them.
Will look through some of your links later.. cheers
hey Katie. this week i've been working out of another office because of the pending move to the new building which will "house" us all under one roof instead of 3. I'm surrounded by many folks who have become friends over the years....it has made such a difference. Not only is my head clearer and my ability to multi-task and get stuff done is back, i feel like i walked into a group hug. they reflect their love to me and I to them....that's what friends do don't they? :)
I have to say, I have the most wonderful group of friends. Each one brings so much to my life. Each seeming to have a different purpose for me and me for them.
I have gotten considerably closer to my SIL in the last while and I have to say, she is my best friend. We can say a lot or we can sit on her swing and say nothing, just looking out into the yard...swing...swing...swing.
It is a wonderful feeling having someone walk with me that mile as I do figure out some things in my life.
baby sweet pea......your SIL is a very special person....she and i have had many wonderful deep discussions over the last couple of years, and i've missed seeing her as much as i used to when we were working in the same building. i'm glad you two have formed such a loving bond.
yes, i too have very special people in my life and feel very lucky.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I guess a friend is someone who is there for you when he or she would rather be somewhere else
nowhere else is more important.
Friendships are basically important. Thanks for adding me to your list and acknowledging both my sides
Oh! I don't get to be called "breadbox" on your sidebar?!?
N.
marja....dutch kiwis are unique breeds. :)
N.....almost linked you as Nice. Do you want me to change it to breadbox, Nice?
Breadbox would be lovely:-) After all, that is how everyone else knows me!
You're the only one who ever calls me nice:-)
N.
more people should call you Nice. It's just not right.
There you go.....its as it should be on the sidebar. :)
Thank you so much!
N.
ps I'm so impressed that you've managed to get over your difficulties getting the sidebar to work:-) (I imagine that most of them were imagined anyway:-)
Nice... well, blogger dummy-fied the process...it was a snap. I may even post other stuff on my sidebar....who knows. I love that i was able to post a photo on the header too.
however, most difficulties are imagined don't you think?
I do indeed think that most difficulties are inside. I remember a calculus text which has a preface (who ever reads the preface) with these helpful words -- and I paraphrase:
"What one damn fool can learn, so can another: and remember, there's a lot of damn fools who've managed to learn this stuff!"
I love that phrase:-) Of course, the smart folks can have problems:-)
N.
Oh, and in keeping with the theme of the original post, which I've been remiss in touching on, friendships jump out at the strangest times.
I've been struck by our happy weird links and connections over the past few years --- and struck similarly with others too.
I'm reluctant to give up on friends: I have one friend in the UK who I contact every year whether I need to or not, just to try to keep the connection there. Yet I know if I go over, and can visit and reconnect, it will all come flooding back within seconds.
And I'm hoping that will be the way that it is on Saturday when we go to the beach with our closest recent local friends, who chose to move away a few months ago.... wish us luck!
Dangnabit. Now I gone and made it all about me again. And I was trying to do just the opposite...
N.
N....maybe if I had read the preface I would have been up for the challenge more suitably! It may also have helped if I didn't have a lusting calculus teacher who creeped me out. :)
Enjoy your time with friends at the beach. We have just done the same....visited some of our oldest friends during a trip back to Ontario.
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