I've been thinking a lot about relationships - as I'm preparing to leave for school - and time - as I'm preparing to leave for school and packing is crazy. My friend wrote this today, and it got to me to thinking.
"You always ask why people always seem to leave you. You want to know the truth? You get done with people. The second they're not what you want them to be, you're gone. People dont' leave you. You leave people emotionally, that's why they go."
~ Kristin
I realized that it somehow someone can 'leave' physically, but as a friend, they're still right there no matter how many hundreds of miles lie between you. The inverse applies as well. You best friend can live across the street and yet suddenly he or she can be farther away from you than a penguin in Antartica. Why?
Here's the thing. I think that now-a-days no one realizes how directly related relationships are to time. The more time put in, the stronger the relationship and the less time, the weaker the relationship. No exceptions. And in this constant age of busy-ness, time is a very expensive commodity. It becomes tempting to forgo any deep relationships whatsoever in pursuit of that career/degree/grade/whatever, yet is life really worth living like that?
At the end of the day, what matters more? The material or the immaterial? The answer is solely up to you and only you will have to live with the consequences of your decision.
I hope - and pray - that this is a lesson that I can take to heart, because I'm going to get a lot of practice with this if I choose right. And I'm practically going to have to brand this on my forehead to keep my type-A get-it-done personality from taking over. There isn't any doubt in my mind, though, that relationships are the most important thing in my life; my relationship with my Father, and my relationship with others. Now if I can just live that out!
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