I wrote this entry three months ago. I found this in my file and I thought I'd share this with you.
MY CONCEPT OF FRIENDSHIP
For me, in real and authentic friendship...:
1. Distance is immaterial.
You are still the same friends as you were when you last met each other. And you could pick up the pieces from where you had left off; stay tuned from a timeline in your life and be who you are, elsewhere then come back to the present and celebrate that friendship over and over again without condition. Thus, friendship in this level is authentic and true.
2. It does not demand but offers time and gives space when the occassion calls for it.
3. It reassures and does not pressure.
4. It gives love and shares love.
Friendship in this degree is richer and greater than those types where people conglomerate on a regular basis out of fear of losing it.
5. My friendship does not hold regular powwow because I live in a distant shore away from my friends, yet they are there when I needed them most.
They write, they call and they feel my heart. Sometimes, it is just our intuitive connection that resonates within and we just know when to call, or connect at that moment in time.
6. They comfort me and accept me without biases.
They are the friends who remain eternal to me and people I hold dear in my life. They are my sisters and brothers; cousins, colleagues, neighbors and folks I met while teaching and living overseas. They are honest, kind, empathic, generous and thoughtful. They mirror each other.
7. True friendship brings in more friends into the circle because that is the way relationship grows. You do not limit the height of it. It grows and grows and gets wider in space.
Like a round song or cannon, the circle of friendship moves on and on. It does not hold boundaries from east to west and has no biases with age, color, race or religion.
8. Friendship is a marriage of the mind, body and soul.
At least that's what I believe in.
-PIZZICATTO
Copyright in North Beach
San Francisco, California
All Rights Reserved
03/06/07
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