Friendship

[Jitendra Hydonus]

That's kind Steve. Thanks for the bump.

We've experienced both polarities in our friendship- gentleness and coldness. But we never stopped trying. I suppose that's pretty admirable.

Of course, it's all been online. Maybe there's a reason for that too.

I feel there is a reason for it. That reason may just be to be able to get along with different people who have different views on some specific topics and common views on others. Perhaps the topics we look at in a different perspective would not be addressed as much if we were together in person sharing common personal experiences.

I find that we don’t always choose our friends, sometimes they choose us, and I’m grateful that some people have found me worth choosing as a friend, especially at times I choose others as friends and they are not interested in me.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I’m coming back to this thread because I have found in many ways people have been helpful and attempted to be kind, even though at times they may not know that they have had difficulty expressing it. We may think we would be better off in another relationship or with someone else as a friend, until we find out that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, especially if we have spiritual support in friends we can rely on.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

That's kind Steve. Thanks for the bump.

We've experienced both polarities in our friendship- gentleness and coldness. But we never stopped trying. I suppose that's pretty admirable.

Of course, it's all been online. Maybe there's a reason for that too.

I feel there is a reason for it. That reason may just be to be able to get along with different people who have different views on some specific topics and common views on others. Perhaps the topics we look at in a different perspective would not be addressed as much if we were together in person sharing common personal experiences.

I find that we don’t always choose our friends, sometimes they choose us, and I’m grateful that some people have found me worth choosing as a friend, especially at times I choose others as friends and they are not interested in me.

I have found that there are people who are more lighthearted about their day to day lives. It is important to have a good laugh with people. Sometimes I’ve been with friends that in many ways are much different than me, but I’m so happy to have some ‘laugh therapy’ with them. When they can take themselves less seriously 😳 and joke about a few things along the way. After all, think of the great cosmic joke God played on us, making us think all this we are experiencing is totally real.

Yet this is an attitude to nourish: through spiritual practice we do find that all our serious concerns can point to a person so stuck in their own predicament and often self centered, that they can’t lighten up to enjoy what’s presented to them in this theater of life.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

https://youtu.be/g6OpuHPoViQ?si=J4QSChZ-Tghb3q0b

‘ Those who say they are great are not. And those who are, are too busy being great to think about their greatness. Besides, as soon as you proclaim how wonderful you are, everyone wants to prove you otherwise. A fake rose can never be a real rose and a real rose will shed its fragrance, no matter how much it is crushed.’ ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Recently I’ve had some deep experiences remembering just how it felt when I was with certain friends and it is hard to believe that others I’ve been with do not feel the same intensity of those experiences again, from time to time. Can it really mean I will never see this person again? I do not think so. Perhaps not this life, but sometime again. I mean, even though we have differences with people, still what about that soul connection we have felt with them? Is there nothing to this?

I believe that people that meditate actually can feel the very presence of a soul connection that happened years in the past; whereas a lot of people forget and dull their senses and soul receptivity with worldly activities. And then lose their feeling of soul connection that they’ve had, which keeps them going strong on the spiritual path.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I find that in friendships it is important to attempt to help friends with their issues and emotional difficulties without advertising to the world when your friends may not appreciate doing that and others may use such information maliciously against them. This is what I have been attempting to express in the latest thread we have been discussing.

[tides2dust]

Steve, this message you have "attempted to relay in the last few threads" is cryptic and hard to follow. It's best to speak plainly if you're trying to tell me something, I have not been keeping up with whatever is going on. You can write me a personal message or leave me a detailed message on my phone if I miss your call.

What information is being maliciously used against you? I'm really confused Brother, it sounds like someone might be harassing you. Or you might be experiencing some heavy and dark emotions? I pray for your immediate relief and peace.

God is with you.

Take care ~

[tides2dust]

If you didn't know- if a friend is using personal information against you with malicious intent, they are no friend. You should remove yourself from that dynamic.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

If you didn't know- if a friend is using personal information against you with malicious intent, they are no friend. You should remove yourself from that dynamic.

Sometimes it’s too late for that. All we can do is forgive and forget.

[tides2dust]

Apparently so! 

 

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Apparently so! 

 

Yes and only apparently because what happens between friends is not always so cut and dry. In the world we presently inhabit, duality has many shades of grey added to the occasional glimpse of Mr. Sun through the clouded grey hues of the clouds.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Really like waking up in the middle of the nite and finding a friend has responded here or by personal message. And then going outside to energize and lastly meditating a bit before going back to sleep.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Don’t ignore me!

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