March 20th, 2008 (11:34 am)
current location:
C-4
current mood: thoughtful
current song: So Far Away-Crossfade
I realize today that everyone--from my mother, to my best friends, to my siblings-- has qualities I don't necessarily like. But, instead of trying to ignore that person or kick them out of my life, I have to look at what I like about that person and ask myself "Do I learn from them?" and "Can I count on them--to be there for me, to let me cry on their shoulder, to share stupid jokes with?
And then I ask myself am I the kind of friend that people can count on or if I teach my friends by being myself. And i think about the people who have always been nice to me and I've let them down one way or another. Or the people I shrug off because I'm not in the mood to talk to and then as a result I miss certain things and I missed things I should have seen which could have saved a whole lot of time and trouble...
ESENTIALLY SOMEBODY WHO THOUGHT OF ME AS A FRIEND AND I DIDN'T SHOW THEM THE SAME KINDNESS OR PATIENCE OR WHATEVER BECAUSE I COULDN'T GET PAST THEIR ANNOYING QUALITIES.
So its something I realize I need to change about myself.
So I will work on it and try to be more kind and friendly and patient and understanding.
THANKS YOU GUYS FOR BEING GOOD FRIENDS TO ME I LOVE YOU ALL !
Some Quotes I found :
Alice Walker: No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alan Cohen: It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Charles DuBois:The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become
Eleanor Roosevelt:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." -- Elbert Hubbard |
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)