Four Fabulous Favors You Can Do For a Friend Having Surgery
Perhaps your hectic schedule prevents you from visiting your friend who is in the hospital recovering from surgery. Maybe your friend is restricted, doctor's orders, from receiving guests. Maybe, just maybe, you don't visit your friend in the hospital because every time you think about the visit your palms get clammy, your face feels flush, and your head spins with dread over setting foot in a hospital. But, the patient is a great friend, and she would do anything in the world for you if the situation was reversed and you were the one piled up in that recovery room.
Friendship is Priceless!
Over the years I have been very blessed by an amazing number of individuals who I class as friends. They come in all sizes, shapes, ages and live in various countries around the world. The American Heritage Dictionary describes a friend as "one whom you know, like and trust". Getting to know someone takes time and effort. It requires dialogue and sharing as well as patience and understanding. Developing the friendship can be an interesting adventure which helps you to expand your own perspectives and about issues and cultures.
Friends Are the Greatest!
The Happy Musing for the Day: Of all the treasures in the world a friend is the greatest. I once asked my granddaughters, ages 7 and 9, what was the most important thing in their lives. And, without hesitation they both answered, "Friends! " As they talked further, I could see that making friends was their way of creating their own world and becoming independent. Friends were not only fun and an extension of their family, a friendship was something they valued highly. They treasured their friends.
Who Doesn t Need Gold?
The Happy Musing for the Day: Golden times are those spent with golden friends. When I look back over the years and think of the best times I have ever had, they are always times spent with golden friends. These are those friends who have weathered the test of time, who are there rain or shine, win or loose, rich or poor. They are the ones who make a day. I just heard from one of those friends today. Martha called from Laguna Beach to say how much she enjoyed my Happy Musings feature that runs in the Orange County Register.
Reuniting With Old Friends and Ex-Lovers
Over time, we all lose touch with individuals from our past - old high school flames, distant relatives, childhood friends. It might have occurred because we drifted apart, because we lost an address, because we moved - and if that person married or remarried and took a different name, tracking him or her down can become even more difficult! Nonetheless, locating an old friend or loved one is far from impossible. Here are a few good rules of thumb to bear in mind, however: 1. If you are thinking about him/her, he/she is most likely thinking about you.
Count Your Assets
The Happy Musing for the Day: Your friends are your assets. Guard them well. Friends are assets whose values are unknown. But they are assets for sure. I remember reading a story of a man of great wealth, Charles Strub who was sitting in his barber's chair in the fall of 1929 when he received a phone call telling him that the stock market had crashed and in one day he had lost everything he had and had fallen into debt of over one million dollars. At that moment he realized all his money was gone.
What Real Wealth Looks Like
The Happy Musing for the Day: The accumulation of wealth looks like a gathering of friends. Better than a friend is a group of friends, the more the merrier. To gather friends is a great art. Dennis Wood is such an artist. Although Dennis has never met a stranger, he has also never met a person who was not his friend. Dennis came to work for our company 20 years ago. It didn't matter what he was asked to do, he figured out how to do it and do it well. But one of the best things that Dennis figured out how to do was make friends.
True Friend
Who is a true friend and how does a friendship develop? Friendship clicks when we relate to one another's personality and there is recognition of bonding based on common likes and dislikes, interests, pursuits and passion. There is feeling of companionship and oneness. A friendship evolves overtime and then it slowly matures. A mature friendship is one where you know your friend inside out and accept him or her with all the contradictions and deviations that you earlier fail to notice. A mature friendship is a genuine friendship and here there is a shared sense of caring, concern, desire to grow and let grow and a hope that everything good happens in life to you as well as your buddy.
You ve Got a Friend
Are you feeling extremely happy about the way you are? Are you feeling contended with what you are doing in your life? Are you bubbling with creative energy? Are you feeling tremendously positive about the way your professional life is moving on? Are you enjoying each and every moment of your personal life? Are you able to live a life in the present feeling the aroma of the present? Are you able to laugh and cry with your near and dear ones? Are you able to lend a shoulder for somebody to cry on?
Ditch Your Friends Before They Ditch You
"Birds of a feather flock together" isn't just an observation but a self fulfilling prophesy. There is a saying in Spanish that goes something like this, "Tell me who you hang out with and I'll tell you who you are." Are you having difficulty breaking out of the ordinary? Are you struggling to get your footing? Look around and tell me if your friends are in the same predicament. The answer, 99% of the time, is "Yes, they look just like me." At this point most people get defensive and explain how the people around them were their friends all their life, and go one explaining how they got into the position they are.
