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Sunday, December 02, 2007
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Day 2
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Today's Prompt: "Maintaining friendships ... and do holiday cards help?"
Hmm. This is a wide topic. Wide-open for discussion, interpretation, and the like. I have had many friendships over the years, and I've gotten rid of many friendships over the years. "Gotten rid of" might sound harsh, but really these people either went away due to life circumstances,or I wanted them out for various behavioral reasons, or both. The most important factor to maintaining a friendship to me is whether you both have the ability to grow and change over time, and still like, have respect for and accept who that person is rather than long for who they used to be. That's just my take on it.
As for whether holiday cards help? Hell no. I rarely ever bother with holiday cards. If I want to keep in touch, I'll keep in touch. Period. I don't know why people bother, personally. It depends on your circumstances and everything, I just don't think that beyond informational purposes or looks, it does much good to send a holiday card. It doesn't mean you have a relationship with anyone, it just means that you sent them a pretty piece of card stock. And don't even get me started on form letters. Unless you are like my mom's friend and have a huge extended/blended family full of children, grandchildren, step children and the like and you actually need a twenty-page dossier to describe your last year, there's no excuse. |
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posted by purplefishy
1:18 PM
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