Life is an Echo
It has been seven long years since I put up a post on this page! Wow! How time flies. I'm thankful, I'm here, alive, doing quite well. A wonderful husband and two beautiful children later, I would like to think I've matured a bit. Let's find out together..
A couple of weeks back, a friend complained to me that she seems to have lost all her friends. Even the faithful ones like me (nah, that hasn't changed, I still have no modesty) were no longer keeping in touch. So I asked if she had really put in any effort to remedy the situation. Has she reached out to them? Find out about their personal circumstances?
We usually tend to assume that friendship / familial relationships come easy but they don't. It requires work, energy and most importantly genuine commitment. One has to learn not to take those relationships for granted. Sometimes, you have to be a listening ear even though you really don't want to hear, carry a burden though your shoulders are already heavy with yours, be a source of faith or comfort though you have doubts. The most important thing is to be there.... Be there actively and genuinely.
You can be rest assured that in the amazing way this universe has been ordered, that day will come when you will also need these favors returned. Probably not in the same measure or form nor from the same people but the day will come.
This poem sums it up for me
Life is an echo
what you send out
comes back
what you sow
you reap
what you give
you get
what you see in others
exists in you
remember life is an echo
it will always come back to you
so give goodness
life is an echo
what you give out
will come back
so show care
and do whats right
treat others the way
you want to be treated
beacuse it will come back ot you
for life is an echo - Matthew Linback
Later
Jay
P.S: I also need to work on so many of my relationships.. But a step at a time.
A couple of weeks back, a friend complained to me that she seems to have lost all her friends. Even the faithful ones like me (nah, that hasn't changed, I still have no modesty) were no longer keeping in touch. So I asked if she had really put in any effort to remedy the situation. Has she reached out to them? Find out about their personal circumstances?
We usually tend to assume that friendship / familial relationships come easy but they don't. It requires work, energy and most importantly genuine commitment. One has to learn not to take those relationships for granted. Sometimes, you have to be a listening ear even though you really don't want to hear, carry a burden though your shoulders are already heavy with yours, be a source of faith or comfort though you have doubts. The most important thing is to be there.... Be there actively and genuinely.
You can be rest assured that in the amazing way this universe has been ordered, that day will come when you will also need these favors returned. Probably not in the same measure or form nor from the same people but the day will come.
This poem sums it up for me
Life is an echo
what you send out
comes back
what you sow
you reap
what you give
you get
what you see in others
exists in you
remember life is an echo
it will always come back to you
so give goodness
life is an echo
what you give out
will come back
so show care
and do whats right
treat others the way
you want to be treated
beacuse it will come back ot you
for life is an echo - Matthew Linback
Later
Jay
P.S: I also need to work on so many of my relationships.. But a step at a time.
4 Comments:
Everybody tend to get caught up in their supposed busy daily activities forgetting that there is more to life.
I believe no man is an Island and problem shared is half sloved or better still transfer of burden on another shoulder which allows u have a fresh breath for fresh thinking instead of wallowing in old and stinking tot of yours.
If everyone can just take up the responsibilty of checking up on one sincere friend today, the world will be a better place. Pls don't get me wrong there are some friends u need to keep at arms lenght.
Give what you would like to get back in return be it Love or Hatred, choose one.
Dts all.
Hmm, very true. we should try to spread a little love around
Yeah, like I always say "life happened mehn". I guess everyone just get caught up in the daily hustle and grind of life.... But we shld try to make an effort to check up...even if na text... Ironically, in this present generation we have soooooo many ways of communicating (FB, BB, what's app, text MSG, FaceTime, Skype, tango mehn see plenty means of communication) yet we feel so distance from friend and family...hmmm I'm thinking are we just a selfish generation, once I dey kampe, don't really give a "hoot" about the next person aka friend????...
Btw Jay, u had better start communicating with me, hence I ex-communicate u!!!!! Heheheh
I am changing for the better. don't worry
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