In my report of Sunday’s party, I yesterday mentioned how great it was that so many friends came to celebrate Michael. Ramona and I talked a lot about friends yesterday and I realized once more how grateful I was for the friends I have in my life. I believe friendships are very important – much more important than money, success and all the other things that seem so important sometimes.
While spending this short and so valuable time with Michael and Andrea in Lüneburg and then here in Wiesbaden with Thomas and Iris, I could feel how close we are connected from the heart. Talking with Michael’s friends at the party, I noticed how well I know his inner world as well, as I could see some characteristics in his friends which he would appreciate and which would make them close to him. This understanding is only possible because we share deeply.
You have to remember that a friendship lives from you opening yourself to the other one. You have to show what is inside, what is deep in there. Your hopes and dreams, your fears and sadness. From time to time, there has to be a talk or an experience that brings you closer to each other and makes you understand on a deeper level than you will ever understand those with whom you don’t have such moments. If you don’t do that, if you don’t open up to others, you will someday be left only with acquaintances, not friends.
With life’s many distractions, there may also be such friends with whom you were close before but with whom you somehow lost touch. Or with whom your contact just reduced to the occasional call or birthday visit. Maybe you got too busy with the other areas of life. Maybe you didn’t even realize the distance that was created.
Take time to connect again with people whom you feel were close and whose closeness you are missing. If there is no reason not to, if you believe there are many points that you could share from your heart with each other, do it! Go deeper also with those with whom you haven’t made such experiences yet! Try, open up and just do it!
We need it. Humans are social animals. We cannot deny our need for contact, a touch of love that goes deeper than small talk and gossip. No matter which career you are striving for or how much money you are trying to earn by working at all times, you need a deep connection to other human beings.
If you have real friends – even if it is just a handful, no, even if it is just one – nothing else matters more. Not work, not any material belongings, not money.
That’s how I feel so thankful for all my friends. Those who are close to my heart. Those with whom I sometimes get in touch and those who are regularly in contact. Those whom I call, even when I have only one week in this country and not much time to talk. Those who open their home to me at all times to share love with each other. And those for whom I would fly thousands of miles at any time, just to be with them.
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