I love the way your write up feels so relatable and genuine. Indeed many are on this shoe. I discovered that friendship at adulthood is quite different at childhood and teenagehood. I can relate to some extent about the late posting to NYSC and one's name not being in the graduating list. It's not easy oh. But then what has helped me in going through the travails of friendships is keeping one that lives out my value system. And they are not more than three. I can't deal with my circle if they are more than three. We've been there and supportive for each other. Thanks for sharing this and I do hope that you now have your own circle of friends as we need them to go through the journey of life.
You see the part that got me was when your dad said that you would have become a senior executive if you hadn't left. A place where you would compromise your values? When will our parents have foresight and understand that titles are nothing.
You see the part of friendship, I hold it too much because I know that a lot of things would drift away at least not apart like gone forever but you won't be that close again. This is something I started realizing this year, you can't force it. Like before my friends were mostly from my former church, by the time I left the gap became wider, there were times I reached out to them, it was only hello and hi and that's where it stopped.
Even a friend that I was once close to was pregnant and I didn't know, she only told after she gave birth, and it's surprising at first but I understood why. Probably because we can't be close as we use to and it's fine. We just have to move on.
I remember when I left my former church, God told me this race is personal, if you do things because a man of God asked you to, when you stand before Him, your excuses aren't valid. You are solely responsible for your spiritual walk with Him meaning this race is a personal one. Honestly I have learnt a lot.
And from your article, I can relate a whole lot!!!
Your last paragraph is amazing, I’ll write it down in my journal. This piece is a wake up call for all of us including myself too. I recently had to walk away from a relationship that wasn’t serving me anymore. And about our parent, God will help them see things clearly, because they honestly don’t.
Thank you. This was really a relatable and genuine article. I can imagine how much it must be for you leaving a relationship. It's well. God is definitely with us.
Wow! What a read!
I feel blessed!
Thank you, Sam.
I love the way your write up feels so relatable and genuine. Indeed many are on this shoe. I discovered that friendship at adulthood is quite different at childhood and teenagehood. I can relate to some extent about the late posting to NYSC and one's name not being in the graduating list. It's not easy oh. But then what has helped me in going through the travails of friendships is keeping one that lives out my value system. And they are not more than three. I can't deal with my circle if they are more than three. We've been there and supportive for each other. Thanks for sharing this and I do hope that you now have your own circle of friends as we need them to go through the journey of life.
Thank you, Phinehas. My circle is now very small because I don’t even have energy to keep a large one.
You see the part that got me was when your dad said that you would have become a senior executive if you hadn't left. A place where you would compromise your values? When will our parents have foresight and understand that titles are nothing.
You see the part of friendship, I hold it too much because I know that a lot of things would drift away at least not apart like gone forever but you won't be that close again. This is something I started realizing this year, you can't force it. Like before my friends were mostly from my former church, by the time I left the gap became wider, there were times I reached out to them, it was only hello and hi and that's where it stopped.
Even a friend that I was once close to was pregnant and I didn't know, she only told after she gave birth, and it's surprising at first but I understood why. Probably because we can't be close as we use to and it's fine. We just have to move on.
I remember when I left my former church, God told me this race is personal, if you do things because a man of God asked you to, when you stand before Him, your excuses aren't valid. You are solely responsible for your spiritual walk with Him meaning this race is a personal one. Honestly I have learnt a lot.
And from your article, I can relate a whole lot!!!
This was a good read by the way.
Your last paragraph is amazing, I’ll write it down in my journal. This piece is a wake up call for all of us including myself too. I recently had to walk away from a relationship that wasn’t serving me anymore. And about our parent, God will help them see things clearly, because they honestly don’t.
Thank you. This was really a relatable and genuine article. I can imagine how much it must be for you leaving a relationship. It's well. God is definitely with us.
Thank you, Patricia.