The more people I meet, the more I've come to love my cat.
I am not a "people" person, I'm a "person" person. I wish I was one of those people who see the good in all, love everyone openly, give of myself freely and frogive everything easily - but I am not. 2010 will be the year try, in ernest, to become that person.
I'm making strides to reach out to and grow closer with those who share my values, respect my beliefs and value my opinions. Consequently, my patience and tolerance of people who opose my values and beliefs are getting thinner, and my once vast circle of friends is getting smaller.
Ironically, the smaller the circle becomes, the more full of life and love it gets. The more people leave, the more I can focus on the person that stays behind. The emptier the circle gets, the more room I have to learn, grow and develop myself into the person I want to be. In matters of friendship it seems, less is definately more.
I heared a teacher recently speak on the topic of friendship... and there's a line that really stuck with me. Friendship is work... like a marriage. If you have a ton of things to do, always keeping you busy and twenty people to try and maintain friendships with those friendships will always remain superficial.. you won't have TIME to develop a relationship with some roots... so she said that you have to choose which relationships you want to grow those roots and and purpose the friendship instead of just falling into them... hardest thing about that... choosing which friends you are going to grow some roots in.
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