How To Be A Good Friend
A friend is someone who likes you.
However, a good friend displays qualities beyond the surface smile.
Are you a good friend? Can you listen with the ear of a poet and hear the cadences in the voice that tell the true story, without interrupting.
Spirit dance Do you let your spirit dance with happiness when joy is confided in you.
Delighted for your friend that good things have come to them.
Self-awareness Being a good friend comes from self-awareness.
Awareness of self lets you know what your own issues are and be able to separate them from those of your friend.
If your friend is struggling emotionally and in need of your comfort this is not a signal for you to take their issues to heart yourself.
Walk alongside Good friends walk alongside each other in life.
Sharing the joys, listening with attention because they know what you are talking about is important to you.
The subject under discussion may not be of personal interest to you.
However, if it is important to your friend then that is reason enough to give your full attention.
Compassion It is so easy to slip into the bad habit of dumping your own views and issues when a topic is opened.
A good friend is compassionate about hearing your latest life challenge without piling on their own emotional baggage.
Tolerance Every person is a unique individual and friendship is a bond created by mutual consent between two individuals.
Yes, you can be good friends with more than one person at a time.
The special harmonies that exist between friend A and friend B may be quite different from the aspects that draw friend A to friend C.
Misunderstanding may arise when various friends see you interacting in ways they are unfamiliar with.
A good friend will smooth the way between different friends in the hope that everyone can enjoy the moment in life that has brought them all together.
A way to do this can be to take the focus away the people and place it firmly on the event that has brought you all together.
Prime skill Two people who are good friends with each other are respectful of each other's differences.
Being good friends does not mean you have to agree about everything, or always like the same things.
Rigid unyielding views and behaviors do not characterize good friendships.
The flexibility to flow with any situation without adding stress is the prime skill of a good friend.
Like any skill it takes time to master.
The more frequently you interact this way the easier it becomes until it is how you always behave.
Flowing with a situation and easing people through it while still enjoying being in the moment has great rewards.
However, a good friend displays qualities beyond the surface smile.
Are you a good friend? Can you listen with the ear of a poet and hear the cadences in the voice that tell the true story, without interrupting.
Spirit dance Do you let your spirit dance with happiness when joy is confided in you.
Delighted for your friend that good things have come to them.
Self-awareness Being a good friend comes from self-awareness.
Awareness of self lets you know what your own issues are and be able to separate them from those of your friend.
If your friend is struggling emotionally and in need of your comfort this is not a signal for you to take their issues to heart yourself.
Walk alongside Good friends walk alongside each other in life.
Sharing the joys, listening with attention because they know what you are talking about is important to you.
The subject under discussion may not be of personal interest to you.
However, if it is important to your friend then that is reason enough to give your full attention.
Compassion It is so easy to slip into the bad habit of dumping your own views and issues when a topic is opened.
A good friend is compassionate about hearing your latest life challenge without piling on their own emotional baggage.
Tolerance Every person is a unique individual and friendship is a bond created by mutual consent between two individuals.
Yes, you can be good friends with more than one person at a time.
The special harmonies that exist between friend A and friend B may be quite different from the aspects that draw friend A to friend C.
Misunderstanding may arise when various friends see you interacting in ways they are unfamiliar with.
A good friend will smooth the way between different friends in the hope that everyone can enjoy the moment in life that has brought them all together.
A way to do this can be to take the focus away the people and place it firmly on the event that has brought you all together.
Prime skill Two people who are good friends with each other are respectful of each other's differences.
Being good friends does not mean you have to agree about everything, or always like the same things.
Rigid unyielding views and behaviors do not characterize good friendships.
The flexibility to flow with any situation without adding stress is the prime skill of a good friend.
Like any skill it takes time to master.
The more frequently you interact this way the easier it becomes until it is how you always behave.
Flowing with a situation and easing people through it while still enjoying being in the moment has great rewards.
