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Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven:  Hammer It Down.

I think often on what makes the people in my life different to me, and why they stick around, and it reminds me how grateful I am to have my handful of good quality friends, the people who hug me despite anything I’ve done, and the people who understand things that I don’t have to explain.  What I love about having friends in general is just the way you get to know eachother and how smart that is.  Learning eachother’s quirks andunique-ness through interactions, conversations at all times of the day, extraordinary circumstances and situations that together you get through and afterwords look back at those moments and smile and hold hands and recognise that within eachother you are super.  My friends reveal things about me, like that sometimes I’m good at jokes it just depends on who’s listening to them, and also that I can make mistakes and learn and people will understand that something about being a person is learning and growing around people.  Some people were sent to me just to reflect back my favourite things about myself and, alternatively, the worst, my least, just the things I do not like, but accept them because despite bad qualities I love my friends.  Despite awkwardness and silence, despite distance and time apart, I love my friends.  I have confidence in the love that I have with them, our relationships.  I don’t need to see someone everyday to trust in their support and love.

Isn’t it so fascinating that people become close though through interactions?  That you can become to close with someone between simple acts of speaking for hours about nothingness?  Or contemplating philosophical manners over tea?  Or something so uncomplicated as a walk?  I find the most revealing moments within my friendships have been over a walk, you find that there is an end eventually in sight but until then everything that could be told and revealed through a conversation is done so, the time period for such a conversation is stretched only to he end of that walk, and so it becomes in depth and more reflective and revealing as it goes on?  And even if you disagree your dreams and hopes and thoughts always become amplified, important, and almost more important to the other person because  within that conversation those things are revealed?  This happens only occasionally, but really, it is so interesting to me that between two people you can develop together into a relationship just over such simple things.

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