I have been thinking about this all week since a study on Tuesday night... There are many different kinds of help you can offer your friends. You can offer advice, mentorship, physical help (helping them move or fix something), monetary, etc. Often, my tendency is to offer the type of help that fixes a situation or offers a solution or makes something right in the way I think it should be. In other words, when a friend has a problem and tells me about it, I tend to go into resolution mode. Thats not bad in all cases...in fact, it may be the right thing to do more often than not. ....but sometimes, the best kind of friend you can be is the Im with you friend. The one that just listens and endures with them. No advice given either because you arent qualified to give advice on that or maybe you are qualified but telling them what they are doing wrong or need to do when they arent asking for advice wont help in that situation. Its more than OK to be an Im with you friend instead of a Let me fix that for you friend in many situations. Have you ever been or needed an Im with you friend?
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:35:19 +0000
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