From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 10/26/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #29] Friends
"Everyone needs to feel accepted. Acceptance provides a relaxed feeling, a sense of belonging, of contentment and well-being. But where is it that we can go to find acceptance? Where can you come forward, secure with the knowledge that you can be your real self? Who are the people to whom you can admit your greatest fears, shortcomings, failures, and anxieties?
The people who come to mind are the ones whom you don't have to present a polished image, the ones who are happy for your success but who don't view it as a prerequisite to friendship. These are your friends, the people who don't expect you to be superhuman."
Steven Carter and Julia Sokol, Lives Without Balance
Maintaining friendships takes time. Actually, it's not so much time as it is connection. That mysterious connection is what we get from sharing our thoughts and feelings with someone who accepts us and understands us.
It's no good to feel guilty about getting caught up in maximizing the productive moments. There are hundreds of seductive messages that lead us down that path. The trick is to tell the truth about the path we are on. Does our path leave us space and time to connect with those that love us?
Experiment: Make an opportunity to reach out to an old friend, the kind of friend who knows us and loves us anyway.
Affirmation: We are chosing to build time for connection into our lives.
The Daily Dialogue is published each day of 1998 by e-mail. Copyright 1998, Eddy Brame and Marty Crouch, All rights reserved.
