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.
