Keep Your Friends Close
It’s so easy to lose touch with people we consider to be our close friends. It’s even easier for me because I can be THE WORST at initiating phone calls and ensuring that contact and friendship isn’t lost.
Why does this happen? It happens for a lot of reasons. You’re busy, or at least you say you are. They are busy, or at least they say they are. Distance becomes a factor. It’s only human nature to not speak as much when you don’t get to physically see a friend – you know, in person.
Maybe you just don’t like talking on the phone – and that becomes the default excuse.
Now, more than ever, we almost have no excuse for losing contact with our friends, people we value and deem worthy of our ever so precious time. We have our phones with us all the time – or at least 95% of us do. Many people have smart phones where you can have any type of social media, email, texting, etc. type of application.
Maybe you are just not very outgoing.
Maybe it’s this, or maybe it’s for that reason.
Learn From Your Friends
What I find when I catch up with an old friend, someone I may speak with and see only one or two times in a year, is that I learn so much from them. Whether it’s in regards to their job, their family, or something else they may be doing – it never fails that I learn something that I didn’t know before the conversation.
This is a theme that rings true any time you choose to engage with someone, new or old. There is always much to be learned and at the end of the day – it’s our friends and family that are there for us in times pain and pleasure.
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