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Grateful Hearts … Day 22 — Friendship
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle
Welcome to Day 22
Today our prompt is… Friendship
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ― Alice Walker
I’m sure you’ve had at least one ‘friend’ who tried to censure you.
Maybe they said you were naïve, or too loud, or embarrassing in your excitement… Maybe they always acted like the two of you were in competition against each other — a competition your friend felt they should always be the winner at… Maybe you’ve had ‘friends’ who resisted your growth, attempting to ‘persuade’ you to not change, to stay the way ‘you’ve always been’…
These types of friendships are toxic.
These types of friendships are also powerful opportunities to discover where the boundaries you haven’t yet created but need to lie. These types of friendships also help you discover what you don’t want and what you won’t accept in a so-called friendship.
But true friendship, heart and soul friendship is different. It looks more like this:
“The glory of friendship is not the…
