Ways to nourish Friendship
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010
This was posted in Relationships
- Permit Your Friends To Be Themselves: Accept them as they are. Accept each one’s imperfections – and individuality- and don’t feel threatened if their opinions and tastes sometimes differ from yours.
- Respect Their Feelings: We are entitled to our feelings and thoughts. Friends who try to invade the inner feelings of one another risk destroying the relationship.
- Be Ready To Give And To Receive: Be eager to help and able to ask for help as well. But don’t be over-demanding.
- Make Your Constructive: When a friend needs to talk, listen without interruption. Id advice is asked for, be positive and supportive.
- Be Loyal: Loyalty is faithfulness. It means “being with “ your friend in bad times as well as good. It means honouring confidence. It means neither dishonouring a friend in his absense nor allowing others to do so.
- Give Praise And Encouragement: Tell your friends what you like about them, how thankful you are for their presence in your life, Delight in their talents, applaud their success.
- Be Honest: Open communication is of the essence of friendship. Express your feelings, good and bad, instead of bottling up your anger or anxiety. Cleaning the air helps a relationship to grow. But be aware of what is better left unsaid.
- Treat Friends As Equals: In friendship there is no number one, no room for showing off how smart and successful you are, for envy, for feeling superior or inferior.
- Trust Your Friends: Make the effort to believe in the inherent goodness of your friends.
