Friends make your life so much easier and more beautiful. They relieve so much stress and allow you to feel loved unconditionally. You know that someone is there for you, and they aren’t going to judge you. They are the people that are on your side, rooting for you, and that is a very special thing to have in one’s life.
When I think about my closest friends, even if we don’t talk for a little while, or a long while, they are always for my highest interest and always have my back.
I think life is too hard to go through without strong friendships. Yes, they do take time to build but once you do you start to feel so powerful because you know how supported you are. We go through so many trials and tribulations in life that are unavoidable, but if in the midst of all of that you have someone you can call up to let it all out to, or to ask advice to, they love you and they are going to help you. I think with true friends, it feels like a sisterhood, like it really is unconditional love. Because nobody is perfect, we all know that by now, and the ability to have someone there for you, in your good and bad times, is truly an immense blessing.
I think with our friends we have so many things we relate to each other about, so many lines to draw points of connection even if our experiences are actually quite different. Even though we are very different from our friends, I think to have someone that you admire (which is why you became friends with them in the first place) means so much. It helps us be vulnerable with them because we like the person that they are, so we are interested in what their ideas are. I think it’s the fact that we are quite different from our friends that actually makes our friendships stronger, because we can gain perspective on so many levels on so many topics just from conversing with that one other person that we trust and admire.
I hope you understand the underlying idea of what I’m trying to get at. I think it really is the secret of why friendships help us so much in life, because they expand our mind in an environment that feels safe and supportive. If you are in an energy that does not feel safe, but people or experiences are trying to get your mind to expand, then it won’t work as effectively. But if you are with someone you respect and feel at ease with and have known a long time, then you adopt their ideas and perspectives much easier because you feel comfortable with them and have a chance to process these ideas in a non-stressful way. I’m not saying that less safe environments wouldn’t instill new and unique perspectives in you, I’m just saying that our conversations with friends are more likely to have a lasting, positive impact on the expansion of our minds. And again the reason for this is because we admire the people that they are, we trust them, and we feel safe with them.
Friends really do make our lives more beautiful. It’s so amazing to have someone along for the ride, for you to see each other through so many different life experiences and to be each others anchor through a lot of it.
Gimme some honey 