Posts tagged friendship

Posted 1 month ago

I forgot until earlier today..a year or so I sat next to an old man on an airplane. He had lost his wife of 20+ years to cancer, a couple years before. He told me the most important thing is to hang onto your friendships. He seemed both impassioned and lonely when he said it.

Posted 2 months ago

Hours lost in ideas. Near always am I walking during long conversations. I find it easier to think if I’m in motion.

Posted 2 months ago

This seems to happen with the friends I’m most comfortable with. See also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeterosexualLifePartners.

Posted 4 months ago

What kind of friends do you surround yourself with? It’s very hard for me to stay connected to people that aren’t also in motion. They need to change is innate in me.

Posted 5 months ago

It’s important for me to remember that the relationships you have in your life did not passively come to be. Actions took place where you went from being strangers to being close. You can at any time investigate changing the emotional space between yourself and others. You can’t always move closer to them, it is a mutual engagement. But you do have the ability to try.

Posted 5 months ago

The actual conversation was via text message and missing most of panel 2. There’s so much fake politeness that when one wants to legitimately transition into friendship, it can be hard to resist the urge to over explain which becomes awkward. Still, action proves out over time. If you want to hang out with someone on a platonic level you merely need to do that.

Posted 6 months ago

I’m often bad at volunteering emotional information about myself. But, I’ve gotten better over time. I find friendships deeper and more meaningful connections occur when you’re willing to throw yourself out there faster. 

Posted 6 months ago

For me, it’s often the marker that the friendship has truly began. You have left the region of acquaintance and entered the realm of someone that’s allowed to know about me.

Posted 8 months ago

It’s weird to realize you don’t know how someone fits into your life. To have that sudden realization that the puzzle pieces that used to fit suddenly don’t.

Posted 8 months ago

It’s very easy to talk past someone, especially when you both thinking about different things. It’s important to make sure you’re focused on solving the same problems. I recently had a heated discussion with a friend and it came out she was focused on something I had already solved for myself. Once I handed that information off things mellowed out.