“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” ~Ben Stein
We don’t always pay attention to the cumulative effects of a warm hello, or help with a package or a daily text, or a photograph that makes us smile. But, when someone or something is no longer there--you realize how those brief, subtle, everyday interactions add up. It’s not a futile attempt to create rational structure … consequential strangers matter. Relationships needn't be painted as "close" or "not-close," but rather as meaningful. Why--because meaningful relationships are important social and spiritual principles.
We genuinely need people we can trust to tell us the truth, even when it is difficult to hear. In a fast-paced, high-tech, highly mobile society, we must be intentional in cultivating connectedness and community. The joy of living well is found in stepping beyond our independence and isolation towards a quality of life only to be found with others.
Nothing so shapes us as the relationships we have in life. Self-absorption leaves little room for quality relationships. Make time for people in your life, especially the ones you love the most and the ones who make you laugh the most. When we're good to our friends and family, we're really taking care of ourselves.
In his essays, Albert Camus states that individual lives and human existence, in general, have no rational meaning or order.
If nothing had any meaning, Camus would be right …
We don’t always pay attention to the cumulative effects of a warm hello, or help with a package or a daily text, or a photograph that makes us smile. But, when someone or something is no longer there--you realize how those brief, subtle, everyday interactions add up. It’s not a futile attempt to create rational structure … consequential strangers matter. Relationships needn't be painted as "close" or "not-close," but rather as meaningful. Why--because meaningful relationships are important social and spiritual principles.
We genuinely need people we can trust to tell us the truth, even when it is difficult to hear. In a fast-paced, high-tech, highly mobile society, we must be intentional in cultivating connectedness and community. The joy of living well is found in stepping beyond our independence and isolation towards a quality of life only to be found with others.
Nothing so shapes us as the relationships we have in life. Self-absorption leaves little room for quality relationships. Make time for people in your life, especially the ones you love the most and the ones who make you laugh the most. When we're good to our friends and family, we're really taking care of ourselves.
In his essays, Albert Camus states that individual lives and human existence, in general, have no rational meaning or order.
If nothing had any meaning, Camus would be right …
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