Good friends will help you through
Recently, I have been going through, lets just say, a rough patch. This is what got me to write, and essentially moved me towards writing this blog the way I now envision it. But I just want to share how important a good friend can be. Some prefer to have many people they call friends. But are they truly a friend, or an acquaintance. Other choose to have one or a few good friends aside from acquaintances. I’m lucky enough to have the latter. Not only do I have the latter, I have a few good friends. I look at these friends like they are brothers. They are part of my family. We’ve been friends since we were 5 and 6 years old and haven’t looked back since.
Recently, the feeling of brotherhood with my friends was solidified. I was going through this said, rough patch, and essentially I kept it mostly to myself. I shared my problems with loved ones, but never with my “brothers.” Not sure why I didn’t originally. I know I can tell them anything, but I guess I just was just satisfied with the relationship I had with them and didn’t want to do anything to jeopardize that. But boy, I don’t think I could have been any more wrong. Yeah, it changed our relationship. But for the better.
One of my friends told me a quote that he heard a while back, “Everything that rises, must converge.” Now think about that… what does he mean? The word rise could be used to mean a lot in this context. You take take its literal meaning, as in to lift. You could also take a more general meaning, as in to grow. With converge meaning to bring together, what could he possibly mean?
He used an analogy, or I guess it would be personification in this case. He compared us both to smoke, and as we rise, we come together. We find one another. It goes to show that we are all intertwined. I’m a Catholic and I am a firm believer in my faith. But I believe in nothing more than I believe in fate. And this fate puts us all in certain situations to test our weaknesses and perfect our strengths. This same fate brings us together with those who’ve been in either similar situations, or a situation that can help you through.
This also made me think of how tragedy often brings people together. This could be a national tragedy, like 9-11, or a death in the family. But these problems both have a common theme. They are known. They are on the surface. This makes the problem easier. Imagine if you were the ONLY person who knew about 9-11. Imagine the isolation you would feel. This is an extreme analogy but it can be applied to all problems. So face your problem. Tell a trustworthy friend, and get through.
The key is to go through. Do not go around and do not run. Face your problem, face your fate. The best way out is through. Trust me, you will evolve from the situation. Nobody is perfect, but as a whole, as a collective group, you can be perfect. Take your true friends and your family and run with them. They will help you out, by going through.
I’ll end with a quote from one of my favorite movies…
“I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may…”
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