Friendship
Weirded out by a friend's passing and writing to one and all in a flurry of "omigoodness I have to keep in better touch with people." It's sad when a friend passes. It's worse when you don't realize that they're sick, or have any issues, when you've taken for granted that you will see them again, hug them again, enjoy their spirit again.
Friendship is an odd relationship. It comes in as many different shapes and forms as there are different people. Some friendships mean that you talk or email every day, others that you phone once a month, still others that you see them a few times a year.
We build our worlds with each friendship. Each friendship is another layer upon which we lay our souls in trust to carry our life bits. Some bits go to this person, others to that person. Some of the friendships are with family members, spouses, co-workers, acquaintances from school, a neighbor, etc.
Each bit of self that we share is a layer of soul that carries forward with the person with whom we've shared. Lives are created this way, whole worlds are experienced this way.
In the best of worlds there is a synchronicity that happens. We gather a bit from one friend that neatly ties in with another bit from another friend that ties in neatly with something we've just read or heard. Sometimes those little synchronistic bits teach us something, sometimes they comfort us, other times they leave us thinking.
And even when that wonderful synchronicity doesn't happen, you can feel in your soul a growth, a depth, a moment, when a bit is shared. A moment that is so important that without it your soul would curl up and go away.
Friendships need nurture and sustenance in order to carry on with building the layers of our souls, our lives. Not every friendship needs the same nurturing and sustenance, but they all need it some form. A sharing of a bit of self here and there, a sprinkle of laughter and hugs, and "how are your doing" there.
This is the sharing and caring that nurture the self, the soul, the friendships that carry us forward through our dailyness of life.
Friendship is an odd relationship. It comes in as many different shapes and forms as there are different people. Some friendships mean that you talk or email every day, others that you phone once a month, still others that you see them a few times a year.
We build our worlds with each friendship. Each friendship is another layer upon which we lay our souls in trust to carry our life bits. Some bits go to this person, others to that person. Some of the friendships are with family members, spouses, co-workers, acquaintances from school, a neighbor, etc.
Each bit of self that we share is a layer of soul that carries forward with the person with whom we've shared. Lives are created this way, whole worlds are experienced this way.
In the best of worlds there is a synchronicity that happens. We gather a bit from one friend that neatly ties in with another bit from another friend that ties in neatly with something we've just read or heard. Sometimes those little synchronistic bits teach us something, sometimes they comfort us, other times they leave us thinking.
And even when that wonderful synchronicity doesn't happen, you can feel in your soul a growth, a depth, a moment, when a bit is shared. A moment that is so important that without it your soul would curl up and go away.
Friendships need nurture and sustenance in order to carry on with building the layers of our souls, our lives. Not every friendship needs the same nurturing and sustenance, but they all need it some form. A sharing of a bit of self here and there, a sprinkle of laughter and hugs, and "how are your doing" there.
This is the sharing and caring that nurture the self, the soul, the friendships that carry us forward through our dailyness of life.
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8:42:00 PM
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