Friendships have the same power and influence over your life as family relationships, sometimes even more. Close friendships have an intimacy about them that allows each person to share their lives and secrets. We learn and grow from friendships just as we do from relationships within families and those with lovers.
We learn about friendships in childhood, to trust, to love, to share, to care. If you can maintain good friendships at that point in your life, you will generally follow the same patterns throughout your life, as our issues keep us consistent in how we behave.
Sometimes you meet someone and there is a special connection from the onset. Like my friend Chari and I, I think with us the connection was instant. As soon as we got to seeing each other more at College, the connection was instant.
It is a often a recognition on the soul level. Your frequencies match, you feel a link or special bond, and you want to spend more time together. This does not necessarily reflect a romantic relationship, though one could develop in time, if it is meant to be part of the experience. With romance, it can’t be one sided. Either both people want it, or it won’t work.
The world is in an escalating state of flux and change, reflected in our friendships, and time available to be spent with others is becoming more and more limited. It is often not easy to maintain full time friendships with people. Technology helps us bridge the time gap, if only to say, “Hello.”
Sometimes our friends will welcome our company and exhibit loyalty towards us, often to the point of unselfishness. Our tastes are usually similar but may converge, its only natural. I like mutually helping behavior. I think its only right that if Im your friend I help you and vice cersa. I mean exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship etc.
A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them….Think about it for a minute.
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chari
/ July 3, 2007I wish I knew were i stand…..cant be Karmic because im not physically attracted to you and cant be metaphysical cuz i dont think we have a short term friendship and im not here just to enjoy and then leave…i guess ure missing one extra explanation. but good going there…..i wonder where that piece came from? (wink)