Maintaining Relationships

Once again I am back from not posting.

Can you tell? :)

Anyway, I have found it interesting how my relationships change and grow as I change and grow.

Some people I tend to hang out with more than others. Not because they have changed necessarily but that I have, and, I must say, in some significant ways.

The person I was last year (just check my beginning posts) and you will see those differences.

It is a little sad sometimes that I cannot have the same relationship that I had before with some people, mainly because I still like them. But I am not interested in staying stagnant, or doing the same ole things any more.

They have their place and are fun once in a while for nostalgia, but other than that I don't find it compelling any longer.

Now, as far as maintaining relationships, it is important that I keep those people in my life that strengthen me and are facing the same direction I am. I don't want people who will look away on a whim, or people who can't see what I am seeing because they are looking backwards.

I guess I can either choose to show them the right direction, which I do by example, or I can choose to cut the chaff.

Yeah, that's kinda rude but I have a lot of things in my life that are positive, anything that wants to keep me from flowing to where I should be going is negative.

I think I have overcome many big obstacles to get to this point; I am now starting to see the not so big ones.

I would never completely shut anyone off from my life, but I am not going to make the effort as much any more. I have other relationships to maintain and to grow.

And I am looking forward to the new ones coming up in my near future and the ones in my recent past! :)

Wish me luck! (yes, that was intended as a pun ;) )