You Can't Do This Alone...

_{Helena Lopes}

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If there is one thing I’ve come to be appreciative of in my life, it is the friends that God has blessed me with. For someone like me that hardly makes them, the little I have are really it for me.

Sometimes I just wonder what I did for me to have such people in my life, people who just genuinely want what is best for me. These are people that we started off together, and since then it has been forward ever. We’ve been growing consistently, we are all in different fields making our individual impacts, but we still have each other and there is no negativity around us.

Friendship goes way beyond the length of time two people have known each other, it goes way beyond having that label of “friends” and laughing at a bunch of jokes together. These are easy things that anyone at all can do even with a stranger.

There is a saying that when a visitor comes to the house, the host offers him food. But when a friend comes to the house, the host does not bother to offer him anything because the friend can go to the fridge to take what he wants.

That is the kind of closeness I’m talking about, the kind where even the parents will be friends as well. Friendships that stand the test of time. The thing is that when friends look out for the other, ready to share updates that will make the ones around them rise as well, as they grow together, everyone will be happy because there’ll be no reason for negative energy.

Although these days we live in a world where people want to be the only successful one in their circle, because if everyone is successful how will they stand out? What they don’t know, or they choose to ignore, is that having the entire circle successful is even more beneficial to yourself.

_{Helena Lopes}

When you’re the only one that’s rich, and all your close friends are not, you will always have to work extra hard to keep the money. When you are ill and need to go to the hospital, you’ll have to be the one to foot it all, no matter the cost on your finances. But then, on the flip side when everyone is happy and successful, there will a cushion to fall back on. No matter the misfortune that befalls you, there will be people who will have your back and will be financially capable of doing it without you having to go outside or selling your properties off.

One thing people don’t know is that a G-Wagon can make a statement, but it can never be as loud and as clear as the statement a convoy of G-wagon will make.

Friends are very important in our lives, we just need to have them because we can’t do without them. They are the ones that help us really discover ourselves, they motivate and cheer us on when we are down and feeling ill-spirited.

When we have good friends, they will spur us on and be our biggest fans because they support whatever it is we are doing. And true friends will never hesitate to criticize you when you make a mistake and not fail to give constructive feedback. Some friends will even make fun of you.

Fun fact: How to know someone is truly your friend? They can insult and make fun of you, and you would never get mad. Instead, you’ll be laughing like a fool. But if someone else were to try that, you’ll probably go into beast mode.

_{Bas Masseus}

That’s just who friends are to us, we have allowed them into our safe space. They know more about us more than the rest of the world. They know our strengths and weaknesses, they also know the kind of things that would be better for us, and good friends will always be pushing us towards more opportunities that will turn out better for us in the long run.

Now, there are times we may have made the wrong friends. We let them in and they just used us and played us for a fool, taking advantage of the privilege.

Don’t mind them, it’s their loss, not yours. If they left, then it just means it was not meant to be. I know that nothing hurts like the disappointment of a failed friendship, and it’s something we see more and more these days because everyone is now getting more and more interested in material things and other things like friendship have been given the backseat.

It’s a sad world, but that doesn’t mean that there are no good people out there. as a matter of fact, there are still a lot of them.

So, my dear friends, if you have a good friend, hold them tight. In this day and age, they are extremely difficult to come by.

_{Stephen Seeber}

Thank you for reading. Feel free to drop your thoughts in the comments section, I’ll love to know what you feel. See you in the next post.

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