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One Strong Point To Consider when Choosing A Spouse
It’s probably one of the simplest things to do without complicating matters.
I just couldn’t stand my high school bunkmate.
Apart from the fact that she used to steal my provisions, she was also a gossip.
I recently took some time out to consider why I call certain people my friends. Not just acquaintances but friends, out of which some are besties. I realized it’s got a lot to do with the way we play.
I think friendships are a product of deliberate actions — long time ones anyway.
I have friends that I’ve known for over 40 years and one of them I can call my BFF. We hit it off from the day we met in boarding school and have stayed friends since then because of a deliberate effort to stay in touch on both our parts.
Let’s not kid ourselves, life happens. School changed, location changed, status changed, and we generally found plenty reasons and stuff to occupy ourselves — but we didn’t neglect each other.
And why did we even choose to keep in touch? My take is that we didn’t want to lose our precious friendship. We probably thought if we did, the world as we knew it may have taken a different turn. Who knows?
