Beat the February Blahs: Connect and Reconnect in Positive Ways
Valentine’s Day isn’t just about romance, it’s about friendship too—caring, sharing and expressing thanks.
In a Today Show segment, (January 3rd 08), Shannon Ethridge, author of The Sexually Confident Wife, told how healthy relationships fuel our lives. Lesley Rotchford, Deputy Editor of Cosmopolitan told how a new year can offer the push you need to move on. The following poem highlights the importance of (good) friends…
Friends Need Friends
Friends are there
When you need them to care
Friends do
No need to ask
Friends are strangers
And strangers are friends
Those about whom we know less
May give more
Those whom we least expect
Hang in and on, don’t reject
Feelings protect
Farewell to friends who aren’t really
Farewell to friends who thought they were, nearly
Friends are there
When you need them to care
We treasure them dearly
True friends know who they are
As well as who they can be
Less is more
And more may be less
Small stuff no big deal
Loyalty real.
Take time to treasure friends old, new, and in between—and show them you do! Never too late to be (back) in touch with those (once) held dear… Facebook and other social networking sites are helping a lot of us do this!
Earlier FRIENDSHIP-related blog posts include:
• Relationship Watch: Don’t Know What to Do? Do Something! Doing (and Thinking) Differently in 2009 (January 18, 2009)
• New Year’s Resolutions for 2009: Forgiveness Tops Many a List (December 30, 2008)
• Reflections on “The Season of Giving”: Who Cares? Doers, Takers, Nosey-Pokes, Nothingers (December 28, 2008)
• Veterans Day and SHARING (November 11, 2008)
• Secondhand Stress: Breaking-Up and Making-Up, “Frienemies,” and “Used-to-be-Friend” Types (November 16, 2008)
• MANIPULATION (August 9, 2008)
• No “PLEASE,” No “THANK-YOU,” No HAPPY (May 30, 2008)
• RECIPROCITY (February 8, 2008)
• CONFIDENCE (Februrary 1,2008)
• DEPRESSION ALERT! and Heath Ledger’s Unfortunate Death (January 24, 2008)
• GIVING: Give to Give (September 5, 2007)
• Keep Your Word (July 25, 2007)
• The COURAGE to Speak Up—Use POETRY (July 10, 2007)
• “A” and “B” List FRIENDS (July 8, 2007)
• COMPARISON-MAKING, ENVY, JEALOUSY (June 23, 2007)
• ABUSE Checklists (May 26, 2007)
• TRUTH Matters (May 8, 2007)
• Make Things CLEAR—Avoid MISUNDERSTANDINGS (April 17, 2007)
• A “NO” REPLY is Better than NO REPLY (April 13, 2007)
• REJECTION Protection (February 25, 2007)
• TIME is Precious (December 15, 2006)
• FRIENDS Help Friends (December 7, 2006)
