Do You Really know Who Your Friends Are?

Friends are important. The question is, ‘Do you really know who your friends are?’ Do you know what they are doing? Do you know how they treat other people? Do you know how they talk about things they do not understand? Do you know what they do when they are alone? Do you know what they are going after in life? Do you know what they like? Do you know what they do not like?

What about you? How do they talk about you? How do they treat you? Do they celebrate you when you win something? What about when you lose? Do they get angry when you tell them something great about yourself? Are they willing to work with you? Are they mean to you? Are they jealous of you?

Look, friends are important to you, to me, to others. But no one wants to be around people who are going to make you unhappy. No one wants to be with a bad friend, a jealous sucker. No one wants to be with a terrible person.

If you are not comfortable with your friends, you have a choice: move away from them.

If you do not, you are fooling yourself.

To Build Deep, Long-Lasting Relationships, you…

A great life is not built overnight. It is not built in a day. It is a journey. A journey that no one can take for you. A lonely one. A scary one. A journey filled with doubts, but worth taking. A journey with no end in sight. But it is worth taking.

A great relationship is not built in a single day. It is a journey. It is not a sprint, but a marathon. A great relationship starts with you. It starts with who you are, with what you care about- your values.

A great relationship is formed when you are in it for others, when you see other people as human beings, not just as numbers. A great relationship is formed when you believe in other people, when you know that the world is bigger than you, and when you know that to get more, you need to be there for others.

Remember, life is not about what you can do for yourself. It is about what you can do for others.

The question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’