Don't overlook the value of friendship. Don't neglect friends.
Friends are a joy. Adult friendships can be a good place for us to learn to have fun and to appreciate how much fun we can have with a friend.
Friends can be a comfort. Who knows us better, or is more able to give us support, than a good friend? A friendship is a comfortable place to be ourselves. Often, our choice of friends will reflect the issue we're working on. Giving and receiving support will help both people grow.
Some friendships wax and wane, going through cycles throughout the years. Some trail off when one person outgrows the other. Certainly, we will have trials and tests in friendships and, at times, be called on to practice our recovery behaviors.
But some friendships will last a lifetime. There are special love relationships, and there are friendships. Sometimes, our friendships - especially recovery friendships - can be special love relationships too.
Today, I will reach out to a friend. I will let myself enjoy the comfort, joys, and enduring quality of my friendships.
Thanks for the reminder of friendship. In recovery I had become aware of my lack of skills in mantaining, a healthy relationship. I either make them my parents, and feel entitle to what's given to me. Or I just take over and become the caretaker of the relationship, overpowering and controling. I am today working in celebrating the relationships I have, and keeping them healthy. It is work, never thought of it that way but today I know it is. I guess like everything else in my recovery, the more I become an adult(emotionally) the more I see and accept that there are areas that I am still a work in progress. But I am very grateful my higher Power sends role models and lessons so I can keep learning..................
