Throughout my twenties, I’ve learned so much about genuine friendship, and in that, realizing the importance of cultivating relationships and surrounding yourself with people who get you on thesame level. Over the last month or so, I’ve read a post or two from a couple of my favorite blogs on friendship and how to maintain those relationships in your 30s. Since reading those, I really started thinking about the subject of friendship in general and how much my definition of it has changed over the course of the last ten years. Obviously we all have people in our lives who come and go – seasonal friends, if you will. But, the older I get, the more thankful I am for those few, genuine friends in my life who I never have to question. They just show up in every way – and it’s easy. As I rounded up my twenties I’ve not only learned a lot, but I’ve been continually reminded that this is the age + stage of life where a lot of those life-long friendships are cultivated. With this stage comes so many highs and lows – marriage and separations, careers taking off and others changing, some with infertility struggles and others with growing families, house closings and big moves, family issues and even loss. It’s now more than ever that we really need our tribe.
I’ve always been more of a few ‘best’ friends rather than a lot of acquaintances kind of person and those relationships mean everything to me.
For me, I gravitate towards friends who are intellectual driven . The ones that have a story to tell and truly know who they are because that story has shaped them. The ones who will literally run to you when you need them. Friends who support without question and genuinely want to best. The ones who are the same person in a room of 2 as they are in a room of 200. The ones who will get down on their knees and pray on my behalf. The friend I can simply look at and know what I’m thinking. The ones who can go deeper. The ones who you know will defend you and you trust with your whole heart. The ones that understand what unconditional friendship truly means and prove it.
Friendship don’t happen by chance. They are built over a series of events that links 2 or more persons to be closer, trust each other and are willing to go the extra mile for the sake of a greater goal.
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