First the question for the day: Who was your first best friend and what brought you together? Do you still keep in touch?
My answer may sound a little cheesy at first but hear me out. My sister is my best friend. We became automatic best friends the moment she was born and we were nearly inseparable until I began kindergarten. This easy friendship lasted until I hit middle school and didn't want to be friends with her anymore. Throughout middle school and high school I didn't see her as anything more than annoying. But once I graduated from high school I realized, our society really only keeps up with our immediate families. And how sad if every holiday I saw my sister and had nothing to talk about. So, since I was attending a community college and still living at home, I began to work at being friends with her. (Yes, work. Real satisfying relationships take work).
It wasn't easy though. She had now entered the teenage stage and didn't want anything to do with me. So I mostly bribed her with books and movie outings to get her to hang out with me. And as we began to do this we created memories together that only we shared. And then we had things to talk about. And then hanging out didn't have to be about bribing her anymore. We enjoyed each other's company once again. Now we live in different places and I'm married. But she's still one of the first ones I want to tell things too. And I still consider her my best friend.
And now onto labyrinths. So, I've been trying to schedule myself time to get out of the house and go see local sights. Yesterday, my stepson and I went to a movie and then I decided to drag him to a local labyrinth. It was simply built. It was a mowed path in the tall grass and you walked the path to the center. The thing that struck me was when you enter the path you can see the center (the grass was only knee height) and you seem so close to it. Then you begin walking and you walk further and further then closer and closer until you have gone all the way around the center a couple of times. Then you are finally there.
I thought how akin to goals this is. Many times I have goals that seem so readily accessible when I set them, then the path to achieving them takes me on a long circuitous route. The path to getting there is really fun and when you get there in the end there is a feeling of satisfaction. It helps me to remember this as I am working on this year's goals.
My answer may sound a little cheesy at first but hear me out. My sister is my best friend. We became automatic best friends the moment she was born and we were nearly inseparable until I began kindergarten. This easy friendship lasted until I hit middle school and didn't want to be friends with her anymore. Throughout middle school and high school I didn't see her as anything more than annoying. But once I graduated from high school I realized, our society really only keeps up with our immediate families. And how sad if every holiday I saw my sister and had nothing to talk about. So, since I was attending a community college and still living at home, I began to work at being friends with her. (Yes, work. Real satisfying relationships take work).
It wasn't easy though. She had now entered the teenage stage and didn't want anything to do with me. So I mostly bribed her with books and movie outings to get her to hang out with me. And as we began to do this we created memories together that only we shared. And then we had things to talk about. And then hanging out didn't have to be about bribing her anymore. We enjoyed each other's company once again. Now we live in different places and I'm married. But she's still one of the first ones I want to tell things too. And I still consider her my best friend.
And now onto labyrinths. So, I've been trying to schedule myself time to get out of the house and go see local sights. Yesterday, my stepson and I went to a movie and then I decided to drag him to a local labyrinth. It was simply built. It was a mowed path in the tall grass and you walked the path to the center. The thing that struck me was when you enter the path you can see the center (the grass was only knee height) and you seem so close to it. Then you begin walking and you walk further and further then closer and closer until you have gone all the way around the center a couple of times. Then you are finally there.
I thought how akin to goals this is. Many times I have goals that seem so readily accessible when I set them, then the path to achieving them takes me on a long circuitous route. The path to getting there is really fun and when you get there in the end there is a feeling of satisfaction. It helps me to remember this as I am working on this year's goals.
