Relationship with our Distant Friends
Relationship with our Distant Friends – A reflection
Yesterday, we celebrated our relationship with our close friends. Today, let’s explore the relationship with our distant friends.
Sometimes life gets busy, and schedules may conflict. Keeping up with our close friends requires careful planning and intention. Consequently, we may leave our distant friends in the back corner. However, there is a lot of value in keeping up with your distantly located friends.
If you have distant friends, it is for a reason. They decided they wanted to change their landscape and context, and for whatever reason, they set out to live a different life experience. Let’s celebrate that!
By connecting with people who live and see through a different lens, we expand our perspectives, empathy, and ability to connect with others. We expand the possibilities of what is possible. Hence, when in need, having the perspective of someone who lives in a different ‘pond’ is tenfold valuable.
Cultivating our relationships with distant friends helps us ground ourselves. At times, when we get too immersed in our daily undertakes and lose sight of grand truths, reaching out to our distant friends helps us re-scale our hurries. In a flash, we remember that the problems that momentarily felt gigantic are reasonably sized; the world is mighty.
Carrying the world among ponds analogy:
Simultaneously, connecting with distant friends is simple if we remember that we all carry ‘the’ world. In a way, we human beings carry the world. We choose what aspects of it we want to carry, and with what attitude we want to carry them. As we grow up, this world primarily becomes our own making, but we both choose and get assigned some aspects of the world we carry.
Then, there are ponds. People in our pond share some of our world – context. Although these ponds might look, sound, and get hit by the sun differently at different times of the day. The activity and processes among the ponds are essentially the same.
The common denominator here is acquired/chosen responsibly and context/ ecosystem. The variables are the pond’s specific qualities. In other words, even though we live in different locations and under different circumstances, our daily motions and human needs and processes are essentially the same. There’s always the opportunity for connection despite the distance and context difference. Our worlds or responsibilities might look different, but we all have them. Some rules apply to everyone. Therefore, our talks with distant friends can be deeply fulfilling if we connect with truth and trust and allow vulnerability. Keeping up with distant friends is like keeping up with possibilities.
Connect with your distant friend for freedom, wisdom, and creativity.
Yes, it might be more emotionally challenging, but it is worth it, and there are also myriad ways you can do it.
Your voice or text might be what your distant friend needs the most today. You never know.
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February 8, 2023