Friends In Our Daily Busy Life

Written by: Jephthah

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We will have friends in our life. No matter how little or many friends we have, they play an essential part in our lives.

The pace of society had grown so much that I am sure most of us are caught up with a global-wide problem that is better known as the rat race. To many of us, time equals to money, and making money tends to be our main or primary goal. The pace of globalization, competition and
fear of being in lack had driven many people to great desperation. Eventually, our focus from the many little things and events that occur usually in our lives would had drifted away.

Are you busy with work today?

Do you feel stressed our by the demanding nature of your work?

For many of us, this is a likely situation that we are facing with daily.

One powerful way to defuse from our stressful lifestyle is to start catching up with a friend. Friendships can be a hinterland for rest and joy. Though it is sad to say that we are often carried away by our daily businesses and have overlooked a major part of our lives which is in having great friendships.

There are many ways excuses that spoils friendships:

  1. “I don’t have time to meet my friend”
  2. Procrastination
  3. “I got my project to do”
  4. “I am tired, let me rest from my work”
  5. “I have to spend my time wisely, time is money and there’s no room for developing friendship”

And there’s definitely many more than those listed above.

Well, once you have some free time, why not consider keeping up with your friends?

Here are some simple methods which you can use keep up with your friends.

5 simple and effective methods:

  1. Meet up an old friend
  2. Email or write a mail to your friend
  3. Invite your friend to your home
  4. Date your friend out for a simple meal
  5. Play a sport together

The list can definitely go on! Come up with your own approaches you can use to catch up with a friend, like one example would be to simply call up your friends and have a great heart to heart talk, sharing the great things that happened this week and more!

Be the first one to make that call to your friend.

Happiness can be found if you make a first step in reaching out to your friend.

There are so much joy all of us can have by spending quality time together with friends.

We may never know that one of our friends may be facing a difficult situation today, and we happen to be the first person who contacted them out of the blue. We can extend our abilities to help him or her, be it in financial assistance or you can simply help your friend by giving a timely word of encouragement.

The fact is that we can’t afford to be an island on our own. We are social beings that need love, care and fellowship. Friendships are essential to our emotional well being and even effects on our physical well being too.

Statistics show that people who don’t have much friends do suffer from depression and have a lack mental well being.

So who are in your circle of friends?

How many of them are you keeping in touch with today?

Do not procrastinate to call up a friend.

The habit to keep on postponing is always there facing you and me. It is normal human nature to postpone and procrastinate. Let’s exceed ourselves and overcome that procrastinating habit and start today by setting aside some time to call up a friend. Talk to him or her and share things with each other.

Our friends are priceless.

Having great friendship is a beautiful thing in our life.

The ability to create powerful friendships is a great gift that God had given us.

Let us start winning friends, growing together, and kicking that bad habit of procrastination out of us even during our daily busy lives that we lead.

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    Daniel Richard

    April 11th, 2008

    Thanks Jephthah once again for providing a great post! :)

    I’m still in the process of adding new features that will enhance the usability of this site. Will post again for Happiness Friday!

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    Amendaaaa :D

    April 13th, 2008

    hohohohohohohohos! Nice post eh! (: Stop killing strawberries! Before i kill you LOLS :X Jokingggg <3 Takecareeees. See you around! Thanks for the chocolates last week (:

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    Daniel Richard

    April 14th, 2008

    Haha. You are definitely welcome Amenda!





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