My aspiration has always been to
approach soul connections from a position of healing and strength, rather than
emotional dependency emanating from the
wounded self. What I’m learning during is to build friendships not by coercing
other into responding favorably, but about sensitivity, waiting and listening.
Those of us who come from an emotionally void childhood are especially
susceptible to expecting too much from others. We move mountains in order to
hold on to someone even when there is no reciprocity... but rather something we’ve
conjured up.
The way of constructing friendship
involves knowing how to be still rather than following the impulses of the
erratic heart. It’s easy for our human nature to find excuses to delay our stay
in the name of helping the object of our attention rather than accepting the
reality that this or that person may not be our match as we imagined them to
be.
© IF 2008
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