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Who found a friend...

found a treasure!

I have no more words to say about friendship, or rather I would have many, so much so that I always write about friendship. But today, when I read this text, I decided to share it with you and I hope it really is the treasure it was for me. Happy friendship Day ! Happy friend's Day !

Friendship is a path of knowledge and a commitment to care and mutual growth. The friend cares, provides, divides, protects, wants to be corrected and corrects, is not ashamed of the attitudes of friends, cries at his failure and rejoices in his success.

The friend must be sought out, cultivated and valued. It's like a treasure, as it rarely happens out of nowhere. You need to be on the lookout for the possibility of meeting a new friend. It's important to open up to make new friends, look for new friends, learn what's important in a friendship.

How to act with friends and what to expect from them? As has been said before, friendship is a path of knowledge. So we have to look for it.

Sometimes we come across a dirty, ugly, broken, old-fashioned trunk... We need to get close to it, take the risk of doing it, clean it, tidy it up, appreciate it as an antique it is. When we manage to open it, we will be able to find gold or old coins, as well as bones, documents, among others. And if it's something I don't know the value of and I don't propose to research, I'll be running the risk of despising the trunk even before opening it. How many people have passed in your life that you didn't even bother to stop, think and take steps towards a new relationship?

If I notice that inside the "chest" there are "currencies" or "gold", which are already known values, I will also need to plan my relationship with the "new treasure". The same is true of the people who come into our lives. Our life is going to change, we need to open ourselves to changes, because when we come across the other, we need to check the best way to live with the riches that he has to share with us. The richness of being different, of knowing things we don't know, the attitude of the other who knows how to ask for help, who knows how to be attentive to the needs of those who are with him.

Someone who finds a friend and is afraid to see the new is similar to a man who finds a chest with a treasure inside and fearing the changes that will come about because of it, abandons the chest and the riches. Others are so afraid of being robbed that they don't tell anyone about their treasure and live in hiding and afraid of people. Anyone who approaches, he already thinks it's to take advantage and thinks: 'did he find out that I'm rich now?' Many bosses feel that way, afraid of contact, intimacy, and friendship. They immediately believe that the “new friend” will ask for a raise or promotion. But it's even sadder to think that spouses, parents, children also miss out on so many opportunities to have great friends by their side.

When two people meet and start living together, a process of transformation begins, the behavior of one will influence the other's life. The contact allows the questioning of the other and especially the personal questioning. Only by looking – first at ourselves – can we see the other in a transparent way. When we are friends, we encourage and value the contact of our friends with other people, even if they do not become our friends.

When we open ourselves to love, we take risks. And risk is part of it and it's worth it, because everyone who passes by our side always teaches us something directly or indirectly. Think about it.

What and how have you invested in friendship? How do you relate to your friends? What did you learn from them?

What have you learned from those who have hurt you, hurt you, and distanced you from you? Being a friend is a constant learning process. Having friends is a consequence of this process.

"A faithful friend is a powerful protection: whoever found him, discovered a treasure. Nothing is comparable to a faithful friend, gold and silver do not deserve to be paralleled with the sincerity of his faith.

A faithful friend is a medicine of life and immortality; whoever fears the Lord will find that friend. He who fears the Lord will also have an excellent friendship, for his friend will be like him." (Ecclesiasticus 6:14-17)

XO

Luciana.