Its the little acts of kindness and little moments of sharing, caring and understanding can make random people we would not have otherwise known, as great friends for life. it can be a colleague, someone who went to school or college with you, a neighbor or your kids classmate's mom you met in school.
How does this happen? We may know someone for a long time. But internally we would never connect at the same plane. Its strange how friendships are reciprocal, yet unbinding and non obligatory. Friendship flows like water, nourishing the landscape it flows, as it goes. Possessiveness and control can try to contain water, only to see the flow escape the boundaries when the pressure builds on.
Friendship helps you to be yourself while enabling a strong non-restrictive support and life long bonding. Your orchard may be all apples and your friends orchard can be all pears. You share the goodness of apples and pear all life long without forcing the other person to uproot his orchard to replace with the fruits you grow in your garden.
Distance or lack of it is never a factor in friendship. You can live thousands of miles away from each other, but still can share the love beyond the distance with simple acts of love. An email, a phone call or a text is all that matters to keep in touch. While all these are not absolutely necessary to retain the friendship in your heart, these kind of sharing comforts the other person in times of need. You will never be too busy to do such things if you really care. But your friend does not expect this from you! That is the beauty and love we share in friendship.
How does this happen? We may know someone for a long time. But internally we would never connect at the same plane. Its strange how friendships are reciprocal, yet unbinding and non obligatory. Friendship flows like water, nourishing the landscape it flows, as it goes. Possessiveness and control can try to contain water, only to see the flow escape the boundaries when the pressure builds on.
Friendship helps you to be yourself while enabling a strong non-restrictive support and life long bonding. Your orchard may be all apples and your friends orchard can be all pears. You share the goodness of apples and pear all life long without forcing the other person to uproot his orchard to replace with the fruits you grow in your garden.
Distance or lack of it is never a factor in friendship. You can live thousands of miles away from each other, but still can share the love beyond the distance with simple acts of love. An email, a phone call or a text is all that matters to keep in touch. While all these are not absolutely necessary to retain the friendship in your heart, these kind of sharing comforts the other person in times of need. You will never be too busy to do such things if you really care. But your friend does not expect this from you! That is the beauty and love we share in friendship.
