Maintaining healthy relationships ISN'T ABOUT YOU GRANTING THEM YOUR TIME...
Relationships are tools to measure your PERSONAL PROGRESS.
You affirm your desires in the company of others JUST so that they hold you to your commitments to yourself AND THEM.
YOUR FRIENDS ARE HONORING YOU BY CHALLENGING YOU AND HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO YOUR PROJECTED IMAGE.
In fact, quite honestly, YOU OWE THEM!!!
Yet far to many of us take our friends for granted...and the interesting thing about this post, articulated from this perspective, is that ALL OF YOU FEEL LIKE THE VICTIM AND THE PERPETRATOR ALIKE. That's good. That's when you know it is not just an opinion, this is A UNIVERSAL TRUTH.
The more HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS YOU CAN MAINTAIN, THE MORE SELF EVIDENT YOUR POWER IS GROWING.
SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS DON'T RUN PEOPLE. PEOPLE RUN PEOPLE.
Learning how to be a good person to others is the most beneficial tool you could ever possess...and this is all very self evident...
Focus on what matters...yours friends...your family...your acquaintances...your partners... Your allies.. Your enemies... Your associates... Your admirers...your teachers... Your lovers...
This is what is the most critical objective.