Sunday, April 1, 2012

23 Random Thoughts on Friendship

And an excuse to put up some pictures.
  1.  Friends who are willing to write you off without even telling you why maybe are not worth fighting to get back.
  2. Friends who lie to you and to themselves are harmful to both parties.
  3. Friends who have forgiven you are worth forgiving.
  4. Friends who don’t want to forgive you maybe aren’t worth your time.
  5. Friends who can’t find a minute for you in their busy schedules maybe aren’t worth waiting hours for.
  6. For the friends who reach out to you, you should reach out to them twice as much.
  7. Your best friend will always be your mom.
  8. Closely followed by your dog.
  9. You can go away from home and make tons of really awesome friends, but the friends who know exactly where you came from are the ones your heart will pine after.
  10. If I had half as many American friends as my village thinks I must have, I would be practically famous.
  11. A friend’s job is to make your life seem easier. And vice versa. If that is far from the truth, you should rethink your friends.
  12. Acquaintances will surprise you with their kindness. That’s when they become good friends.
  13.  Don’t mourn too much over being pushed out of a group. Chances are there are others who have been pushed out too. And now you already have that in common.
  14. If you’ve got one or two people who are excited to see you when you come into town, you’re doin’ alright.
  15. If you’re scared people won’t like you if they find out about ‘this’ or ‘that,’ then your friendship is already off to a bad start.
  16. You can’t go away for 2 years and expect your friends to be the same people when you get back.
  17. It’s not okay for a good friend to forget about you or ignore you for weeks or months at a time. Don’t make excuses for them.
  18.  Don’t let your friends make you a promise, unless you yourself are positive they can keep it.
  19. Friendships will fail. You can either move on or fix it. Brooding over failure isn’t an option.
  20. When a friend does something meaningful, tell them how much it means to you, even if it seems obvious and awkward, or even desperate. No bad can come from that.
  21. In middle school, some of your peers did nothing but torment you day in and day out. People have grown up since then, but that doesn’t mean they’re more mature. It just means the language is more intricate and more expertly disguised.
  22. Don’t test your friends’ ability to tell when something is wrong. Just tell them and save the time and energy.
  23. Don’t make mental lists of the people who have let you down. Make mental lists of the awesome people in your life. It’s a much lighter list to carry around, and I bet it has more people.
My host brother with some 11th century ruins in Kampong Cham

I believe this place is called Wat Nokor

Cool intricacy.

If you give a monkey a wood apple...

...he'll ask for a mango instead.

My host brother and sister. 

Sisters. like twins.




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