1️⃣ In a few days it will be Valentine's Day. Most of the marketing for that day focuses on couples, but we must not forget that Friendship Day is also celebrated. Do you have a special friend you would like to celebrate with? What would you like to do together? What would you give that person as a gift?
The real value of friendship.
I have a friend who is also the confirmation godmother of my two daughters. She is from Puerto Ordaz, whom I met at an event of the firm where our husbands work, she always comments that it was love at first sight.
I have shared many pleasant and difficult moments with her, and many get-togethers as we grew up. Around a coffee or a good meal prepared by her (she is an excellent cook) just for the two of us.
These days we have shared those days again, and it has been a gift for the soul of both of us. I think these reunions have turned out to be a valuable gift for her and for me. She lives nearby, so when she can, she accompanies me and enjoys getting out of the house (she has had car damage for two years).
When we get into big conversations and I ask her and ask her non-stop, she always tells me that she is not interested enough in the things that happen to others to stop me .... hahaha... to which I reply that I am trained to ask and scrutinize what is behind every statement that my collaborators and students say, which for me is a virtue. Unfortunately, our paths went in different directions.
I have another good childhood friend to whom I always say that thank God we met again during COVID and that is a great comfort, she has been a great company for me when I was alone, even in my city (we live in different cities) where she has no friends either, only acquaintances.
I have found many times in her my mirror of those years when we both built this friendship in our childhood and adolescence that has endured the passage of time. Even the feeling of complicity, and having the same ideals and dreams are in us as if not a second had passed ... I think our friendship is in the time of Kairos.
To have someone to talk to without any embarrassment and incidentally in the native dialect of my land in the state of Zulia, makes my deepest identity flutter. It is really sad that people have passed through our lives, and we have passed through theirs only as secondary actors in our movies and theirs too, but that's life. That's where family becomes so important. However, she has a lot of families, and they are far away I have almost none and the ones I have are also scattered around the world.
My friend has been lamenting because I plan to emigrate, to go to another country. She feels lonely because, like me, many of her friends have died, she has a son in Costa Rica that she has not seen for nine years and her friendships are at zero. And her family is in Puerto Ordaz, where for economic reasons she has not gone for 6 years since her husband died.
Thank you, God! My soul sister, thank you for giving me such a beautiful surprise, my heart is full of happiness, I love you, these are priceless moments, each one of us brought out our inner child and made our meeting a magical moment, where time never passed, allowing a sharing that will remain in our memories and especially in our hearts.
In short, life repeats itself in different ways with different characters. These are my best gifts, to receive the embrace of my friend for 7 seconds, heart-to-heart is priceless, and so is the love of God in the hearts of men.
2️⃣ Do you have a virtue that some people would consider a defect? Tell us about that misunderstood virtue!
If not now, then when?
Self-discipline is the virtue that helps me in my daily chores so that my affairs flow in an orderly manner. Being passionate, original, and methodical in all areas of my life, whether personal, professional, and/or work sometimes does not go down well or is not very well seen by the people who are in my environment even with my closest affections and more than misunderstood generates discomfort.
Being disciplined is not easy, but it can be learned. Above all, if one is interested in obtaining good results, living an orderly life, with health, energy, and harmony, in short, with fewer shocks.
We are human beings of customs and habits
Everything is possible when we want it, small changes, but consistent over time, make the difference. And when I cannot make progress in a task and I know it is important, I isolate myself from all distractions and interruptions, including my cell phone, so that the environment does not slow down my commitments. To get results, consistency is key, and it's a way to execute self-discipline... This also causes discomfort.
It is about learning a different way of doing things, which gives me more well-being, makes me more efficient, productive and makes me feel better in terms of health, relationships, emotions and work.
Part of the success in my life, I have achieved by being disciplined, and to that, I add efficiency, dedication, creativity, and perseverance to have the way clear of obstructions, doubts, and clutter; especially free of interruptions and distractions that keep me away from having the time to devote to what is important in my comfort/control zone from which it is very difficult to leave because we are human beings of habits, of habits.
A misunderstood virtue, but it is with it that I will find satisfaction, the best life experience. Always my friends ask me how much discipline is needed to achieve my goals.?
My answer is simple, I learned to be disciplined because when we are in familiar environments, we feel safe, without anguish, at peace, perhaps unconfirmed, I learned to listen to myself, discern and decide to walk new paths, go out into the jungle of my intuition convinced that success will not come to me, or to knock on the door of my house, I have to go out and look for it, no matter if it scares me, impresses me or demands me and I know it to achieve different things, even dream beyond what is possible.
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