"If you do not take delight in building
lifelong relationships, you will soon discover that you are left alone as time
elapses. Build lifelong relationships
with people and stop the transactional relationships", Ernest K. Akorli.
Many people claim to have lots of friends but
in times of need and trouble, they discover that they are left all alone. The
secret is simple; do not be interested in making casual friendships all the
time.
It is good to have a lot of casual friends but there should be some
caliber of friends that should be part of the core of your life. These are the kind of friends you should share ideas with them.
If someone can really stand in the gap and risk
their lives for you in your worst moments, then it depends on your worth and
the level of your trust and friendship.
The pathetic thing about transactional
friendship is that, people will only remember you whenever they need that
particular service you can provide them. After satisfaction of the service
provided, you are forgotten about and not remembered.
At times, how far you go in life depends on the
quality of friends you have. Building a quality relationship and friendship is
a matter of time, consistent efforts and deliberate actions to stay connected
and united.
You can bump into someone by chance and easily
become friends but such friendship cannot thrive on chance. It will rot and
decay. This accounts for the reason why at times, you have to really say a lot
of things to remind the other person of how you both met, what really happened
and how you became friends. That could be embarrassing.
Inasmuch as you seek to build lifelong
relationships and friends, note that you cannot befriend everybody. Quality
relationship is best managed when you have only a few people forming the core
of your life. I am who I am today by the grace of God through the quality
relationship I have with people.
Writer: Ernest K. Akorli
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