Guest guest Posted October 6, 2000 Report Share Posted October 6, 2000 Agreed friendship is but a window of opportunity. I beleive it was thomas more who talked about realtionships and that it is to bad we can't get as excited about them ending as beginning for the ending is a new opportunity, a new beginning to feel those feelings of a new realtionship, new growth. Another thing that has happened to me but took a couple of years ago a book put it in better words. I was reading a book on prospreity to bring abundance in all areas of ones life. In this book the author discussed that when we had a spiritual growth that we may find that friends would start to fade out or leave completely for they are not giving you the abundance you need in a realtionship and that as you grow your needs change and friends leaving in actually are leaving to make room for the new ones. So, I tried to prepare myself when this happens and it has gotten eaisier less grief, less need to hold on. Don't know why it seems to come in 3's though at least for me. Just thought I'd share the friendship thing from the the world of gzille, hehe. _______________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2000 Report Share Posted October 6, 2000 Arabella, Your post moved me very much. I have read it over and over and it seems to fit in with the loss of my niece and best friend. I miss them both so. It gives me hope that maybe I can be at rest one day with the loss of them. Thanks again, Ellie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 7, 2000 Report Share Posted October 7, 2000 Thought I'd share a recent/current experience with you all .... I've been reading the thread about friendship with great interest. In early August I was finally (after 20 years) able to close the book on one long, sad lost love - he died 17 years ago, but it has taken me this long to let him go. It was a joyous moment, the instant that it happened - it was just a sentence spoken, but it carried forgiveness, and love, and certainty - and the speaker had no idea of the message she had passed on to me. The end, then, was not with his death but with this blessing. A couple of weeks ago I met a man who became a close friend almost immediately ? one of those meetings. It has been many years since I met someone who felt quite so important so quickly. It occurred to me that the timing was interesting, so soon after the other. It is probably coincidence, but then again .... Another thread to the coincidence was the connection between them. A woman who I met and became friends with last year was the catalyst for my meeting in August (in Scotland), and she also introduced me to the new friend (in France). It is possible, given her circumstances, that she may not be in my life for very long. Whatever coincidence or subtle plot is working, I am profoundly grateful. Friends of this kind, wherever and whenever they come - and for however long - are god-given and to be cherished. And they are worth waiting for. Feeling very lucky ... Arabella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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