Embrace Friendships

#Friends #closeness #thankfulness #effort

Relationships with family or friends take time to form. Even if you're someone who makes friends quickly, oftentimes you have to be in proximity with someone for an extended period, or have the opportunity to interact with them on multiple occasions, before you would commit to becoming friends. It takes time and effort on both parties to build and maintain a friendship. This is much easier when you are younger and in school/college, etc., because you are around people constantly with minimal effort. However, as we get older, things change, and you get busier, so it takes some intentionality/effort to actually maintain friendships and even more effort to form new ones. It's easy to just get caught up in your own thing and not reach out or contact a close friend who may not live near you anymore. If this continues over the years and years, sometimes you can lose friendships that took a lot of effort to build. It's hard when you have a lot of friends you can't see regularly in the place you live. This makes it a challenge, but interacting with others who bring you joy and happiness is only going to make you feel better. It only gets harder as the responsibilities of life continue to increase, but friendship is worth fighting for. Be the person who advocates for maintaining your relationships, and maybe try reaching out to a friend you haven't heard from in a while. I'm sure it will lift both of your spirits after talking to them.