"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope." Lately it seems that many of my co-workers and family members are dealing with major problems in their friendships. Now, when I say friendships, I mean more like sisterhoods. Most of these people have been friends for at least 10 or more years, so at this point I'm putting an emphasis more like kinfolk/sista chile/ you know we go wayyyy back like butt cracks kind of a thing. Well what happens when those definitive circles of friends begin to fade? Well I would like to believe that after a certain point, we should be able to tell our friends whatever's on our hearts and it can be discussed in an appropriate manner. Yet, there are those times, when all hell breaks loose and one or more parties involved feel like things are all one-sided.
So ladies, at 30 or older shouldn't we be able to have better friendship circles?
Yes....
We should have better friendship circles as we age. It is a process though that comes with individual growth and experience. Whatever happens in a friendship is a reflection on both friends.What tends to happen is that since the reflection can be ugly, the blame game tends to happen. If we can go deeper as sisters and understand our deeper connections in relationships then we can learn from our experience other then showing resistance to the situation.
I had many sistership that have faded and over time i have taken initiative to look deeper then the surface to discover my role in the situation and what i can do different next time(for example, how to choose better friends for the future or how to deal with the situation better).
Other then that, i think the important thing is to understand that relationships are like seasons. They are always changing. The bloom, blossom,end and revive.If we can accept the cycles of relationships then we may have a better approach to dealing with them.
Peace and Blessings,
.:Mafdet Maat:.
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