“All the dragons in our lives are perhaps princesses expecting us to be handsome and brave.
All the terrifying things are perhaps nothing but helpless things waiting for us to help them”
Over the last couple of weeks, I've really been thinking a lot about friendships. Not just the term or the meaning but the relationship aspect of it all. I've always been a stickler and a sucker for really good friendships and making sure that I was in the business of building and cultivating and strengthening them. Additionally, I think about this often.
I think about the things that make a friendship good; the things that work and don't, that draw you closer and separates you. In my thought process, I observe relationships that I see around me and their ebb and flow. And I often come across that kinda sorta friendship.
Kinda-Sorta-Friendship- Here's how I define this. These kinds of friendships are the ones that hold the title but don't necessarily hold the substance, the content, the drive, the build, nor the community. These are the friendships that are the "I'll see them whenever" or the "I dont have to see them, but when we do connect, its fun" or the "I call them my friend but that doesn't mean that we are always together or that I share everything with them".
Some of these things are so foreign to me because I usually don't enjoy being not-connected to my friends. I love the ability to do live together. And what that means is getting into the nitty gritty of life. What are the things that make you tick? What are the loves and the hates? What happened yesterday? Whats going on today? What do you have planned for tomorrow? What are your dreams & desires? Those are the answers I seek. In a kinda sorta friendship, you dont really get into all of that; you never get into the deeper places of a person?
There's such great community in a one on one friendship. If you do it right, if you invest the time and the energy, there is such great strengthening and sharpening to be gained from your friend. And not that kinda sorta friend, but that friend who says to you, Im gonna love you in the deeper realms of life and walk beside you through it all. Yea, its hard. Its exasuting. In the end, though, the reward of knowing you have a person, is so much greater.
1+1=2
By yourself you're unprotected. With a friend you can face the worst. Can you round up a third? A three-stranded rope isn't easily snapped. -Ecclesiastes 4:12
“All the dragons in our lives are perhaps princesses expecting us to be handsome and brave.
All the terrifying things are perhaps nothing but helpless things waiting for us to help them”
“All the dragons in our lives are perhaps princesses expecting us to be handsome and brave.
All the terrifying things are perhaps nothing but helpless things waiting for us to help them”
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