You probably won't be making a new friend everyday for the next 30 days. Although you could! But you could decide to make better friendships, which may make fewer friends but more valuable.
Friendships need more than just time. There are other things you can and should do to keep your friendships healthy and growing. Over the next 30 days you can do little things that make them better and you may even want to keep doing them after the thirty days.
In the rush of life, it is easy to put friendships on the back burner. You may wonder what happened to friends who once called, while they wonder why you no longer call. Some friends hate to intrude or feel like they are always calling you. This is the month to make things better.
Friday nights, Holidays, and other occasions you may feel alone. You remember those who are not here and wish they were. Perhaps you are far away from family and friends, and find your world is often a world of one.
There comes a time when you must say good-bye to a friendship. You probably have been dreading the moment for a while. It may come in a instant. No matter how much you may want to deny it, you know the friendship has ended.
Some people you may love but the love may not go both ways. They want your company and because you care, you share it. As you head home you feel disappointed, drained or just in a funk.
The bad people are out there, the office jerk, the bad neighbor, the mean boss, the significant other that your best friend loves and you absolutely hate. You wish they were not part of your life, but they are. These people and what you dislike about them is not going to change anytime soon.
Do you know who sees you? You may think your family and friends see you. Perhaps you can think of some others as well. Yet, people you meet only in passing and people you see regularly but think of as acquaintances see you as well. The question is what are they seeing.
While the idiom says a Leopard can not change his spots, people are not the same. People can change, and they do so quite often. While they change, how friends and family see them may not. They choose to see the old person or refuse to see the new, which does not benefit anyone.
There are those who bare scars that are often hidden. These souls are both the ones who inflict the damage and hide it, feeling extremely self-conscious and guilty. Others outside this realm do not understand the behavior