Do you know someone who seems to go from one bad relationship to another? Or are you one of those people who seem
to get yourself into relationships that take a lot of energy to maintain? I guess at some point in our lives, most of us have found ourselves in a
situation like this.
I have a few friends/acquaintances who can't seem to break the cycle. Whether it's a friend-to-friend relationship or with that significant other, they
seem to make a lot of bad choices. Their lives seem to be in constant turmoil and in many cases, although they know it's a bad relationship,
they can't seem to break away from bad choices.
In some ways, being meticulous in making or maintaining relationships may seem cold and calculating. But if you stop and think about it, most of us
do that very thing all the time. We want to be with people who fill a need in our life, whether for companionship, because they're fun, they're interesting, they make us laugh
and feel good about ourselves, etc.. The point is that we do, consciously or unconsciously, choose those we associate with most often, those we allow within our inner-circle, so to speak.
Little Things
Oh, it's just the little, homey things,
The unobtrusive, friendly things,
The won't-you-let-me-help-you things
That make the pathway light.
And it's just the jolly, joking things,
The laugh-with-me-it's-funny things,
The never-mind-the-trouble things
That make our world seem bright.
For all the countless, famous things,
The wondrous, record-breaking things,
Those never-can-be-equaled things
That all the papers cite,
Can't match the little, human things,
The just-because-I-like-you things,
Those oh-it's-simply-nothing things,
That make us happy, quite.
So here's to all the little things,
The everyday-encountered things,
The smile-and-face-your-trouble things,
"Trust God to put it right,"
The done-and-then-forgotten things,
The can't-you-see-I-love-you! things,
The hearty I-am-with-you! things
That make life worth the fight.
--by Grace Haines
(From the July/August 2002 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine)
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