What does friendship mean to you in this season of your life?
Whom do you (still) call “best friend” and why?
Regardless of this person or the relationship between the two of you, a best friend is simply someone you—or your heart—have selected to be part of your life. In other terms, it is your chosen family.
For a friendship to blossom, there must be key basic ingredients, which could be mixed In infinitely unique ways: affection (or love), respect, honesty, faithfulness, transparency, empathy/support, and trust. A genuine, healthy friendship requires mutuality. As needed, it might also require a will to forgive and/or seek forgiveness.
However, forgiveness requires the ability to acknowledge when we make mistakes or hurt our friend. Like any other relationship, friendships require work; neither emotional laziness, nor toxic pride (arrogance). This means the following: direct communication, compromises as needed, and a mutual will to nurture the friendship in order to keep growing together.
Bearing the above thoughts in mind, and adding your own insights, are you being a good best friend to your so-called “best friend”? How can you celebrate this friendship; not only today (https://shorturl.at/YQnQx), but in persistent and truly mutual ways?
