There are people who offer us solace as well as celebration, honesty as well as support, and insight as well as laughter. These relationships are not contractual - if you do this, I'll do that - but are based on love and compassion. It is a fellowship that doesn't enable; it helps us stay sane and on an emotionally even keel. The Fish card represents abundance, and in its pairing with the Three of Cups, it is a reminder that such friendship is wealth indeed.
You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.
― Hanya Yanagihara
my dad said don't sink to the lowest level but rise to the highest level, if I remember right because at the time I was running with a pretty bad crowd. Advice I took to heart, and try to have the best lead by example people around me.
ReplyDeleteI was told 'when you lie down with dogs, you pick up their fleas' (habits) which proved to be true. Had to change my playmates.
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ReplyDeleteBut hopefully that tribe is a mixed group rather than whole milk.
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