Lead With Love: The Importance of Friendship
Throughout life we get to experience, grow, learn, love and connect. The trees growing aside us and the roots that grow beneath them, reinforce universal meaning in support, stability and trust.
Life is full of change, overflowing with experiences and lessons in a paced environment. There is often pressure, especially growing into adulthood, within upkeeping your life, and maintaining the same level of substance to yourself. I’ve found this pressure amongst myself, feeling like I’m keeping up, and having the relief of that control. Though I have not given up on this. Although present with the difficulty, I remind myself I can do difficult things. The time will pass anyways, and I am learning. Adjustments, big or small, physically or mentally, help. I am a soul experiencing life and it is not always easy. Focus on what I can control is necessary, and attentivity to my needs will be in a balance. There is no weakness in needing support or feeling it. With my friends, I feel love. I feel support. I feel bonding. I feel an embodiment of connection and understanding.
The love that friendships can make you feel is unmatchable. The strength your found family can provide you is nonpareil. Connecting within our busy lives is so valuable. The feeling of this can be a reminder of the many things’ life is really about, a memento to the sentiment and wonder, and it feels so grounding. Our perceptions of how we view life seep into the core of what we’re feeling. Having friendships to go through this journey with you can be so meaningful to our essence. Universally, this connection is sought and eminent amidst the complexities of life.
Reaching out and having someone to rely on if needed should not be surpassed or under appreciated. I feel so strongly for friendship because of the effect these relationships have had on the person I am and will inevitably grow into, how they make me feel and the genuine importance they have to my life. I don’t know where I’d be without my friends, or who I’d be. They complete me. They inspire me. They replenish my soul. They carry love within their words and actions. They are attentive to knowing how to love me. It is a beautiful feeling to know they are there.
My parents told my sister and I many times in the past that friendships don’t last. This scared me because I love my friends so much, I didn’t want this to be some universal law that friendship will ultimately end if there is a bump in the road. Looking at the people surrounding me right now, I recognize the importance of having people around you that truly love you, and support you, and I am so grateful I can say that. To say I’ve found my people is one thing, but to feel it, is insurmountable. I recognize my parent’s words as part of their own experience, and a projection of their own situation to try to warn me. It’s true, not all friendships are permanent, they can be hard and present lessons, and while I have been through a few, I have so much love for the people around me, and I am so grateful to have met and know them. I am lucky to love and coexist with such beautiful souls.
My friendships are actualizations of warmth. Comfort to being known. They hold pieces of my heart and who I am. I am abounding in love, and it leads me.