It is so nice to hear good things being spoken about us. So nice that someone thinks so highly of us. Even better if we think equally that high or even higher about them as well.
This give and take, the reciprocation, keeps a relationship going. You don’t need to meet every day or even every month. You don’t need to talk or text with any predetermined frequency either - as long as you are able to build them up and cheer them on knowing that they would do the same for you.
Or NOT.
It is a huge mistake to believe that best friends don’t need to talk and that we can pick up where we left off - not always.
If we don’t keep communicating, if we don’t talk or text, even just a salutation every now and then, we lose touch. It doesn’t matter how highly you speak of someone to someone else if you haven’t even said hi in the recent past, you might as well be strangers.
Over the course of so many articles, we have learned to pick and choose who we want to surround ourselves with. Now we learn one more thing - communicate with the people we chose.
Pick up the phone and if you don’t like talking, at least send them a text.
Relationships are a verb. It is an action word. (Without the “ing” at the end!)
Work on it. This is not a trial run, you only have this one life, this one chance... work hard to hold onto the few good ones.
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Sweta Shah Sakhpara is a pranic energy therapist and a pranic psychotherapist. She also teaches mindfulness and meditation to kids, adults and families. When she is not doing any of the above, she actively practices being a mindful parent to two kids.
Having learned and practiced pranic healing for ~fifteen years, Sweta has been blessed with the trust of many clients for ailments as simple as a headache to complex ones like Tourette’s syndrome, from depression and anxiety to finding ways to embrace the idea of a new normal with a child being diagnosed on the spectrum. You could read more about her HERE.
