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Chapter 8: Staying Motivated For Maintaining Friendships
Synopsis
As said in the earlier chapter, if you know that your friends are true to you thinking that they are the ones worth keeping and staying with, then make sure you know the ways on how to maintain your friendships. However, before you can do this, you first need to stay motivated for maintaining your friendships.
If you wish to stay motivated at keeping your friends, you need to think about the reasons why you want to keep them. You can think about the precious memories both of your have shared during the good and the bad times. Having a friend to whom you share some of the memorable moments in your life could be very rewarding. Thinking about losing that person is never a healthy idea, so you will surely for your friendship to stay as long as you are living. Keeping this friend for a lifetime should be what you like. This can be one way to keep yourself motivated about keeping your friendship.
Thinking how important your friend to you is also another way for you to stay motivated. You may imagine how you will feel once this friend has gone away, which will give you the will to keep in track of your friendship. Similar to any other relationships, a friendship also require some time and effort in order to maintain them helping them grow. So, if you want just that knowing how you to maintain your friendships should be your first step to take.
Showing some appreciation can be one way to keep good friends. There are times that when you’ve known the person for quite a long time, you start from taking him for granted. This must not be the case. Always make sure to thank a friend whenever he/she does a thing for you. Consider returning favors when friends make their way just to help you. Show them that they are not forgotten by their thoughtful friend, you. You can let them know they are not forgotten by offering them simple, yet appreciative things. Tell your friends how much you appreciate their existence, and that you are thankful they’ve come into your life.
Chapter 9: Staying On Track
Synopsis
If you really wish to maintain your friendship, you have to stay on track of it. As mentioned in the previous chapters, friendship is as important as any other relationships. That is why focusing on it could be a good idea. Staying on the track of friendship will help you maintain the relationship for as long as you want to.
Wanting to stay on track of the friendship, you need to display your interest in the life of your friend. A true friendship must be two-sided, so your friend has to show his interest in you just the way you show yours.
If you are focusing on your friendship, you will be a good listener when he needs you to be one. Being a good listener whenever your friend is talking about something that is happening in his life could be a good sign that you are interested of what he does.
Supporting Friends
Fine relationships are often established on communication. Hence, make sure not to disregard your friend. Take enough time to truly hear what he is saying, and only give advice when he asks you to. Your interest must always come with your support to your friend.
You can show your support to him if he is involved in a certain activity which he really puts his interest. For instance, if your friend is a basketball player, you can at least show him that you support him by appearing on his games. This could be a great way to keep your friendship on track.
Finding time to see each other and having fun together will not only help you stay on track of your friendship, yet it will also help you build a lasting relationship.
Considering this may be quite obvious, yet there are times when some people are trapped of simply using their friends to get emotional support and neglect the time to enjoying the company of one another. You may consider doing the things that both of you enjoy together.
Maintaining a fairly regular connection with your friend should help you stay on track. If your friend moves a far place from the one you stay at, make sure to keep a connection. Usually, people decide to move in order to attend to different school or continue their new career.
This does not mean that the friendships need to end. Contact your friend from time to time. If you are not seeing one another often, it is essential to monitor in order for you to be aware of the things happening in the life of your friend. Having a friend from a distant place might let you find it difficult to show his importance to you. You may do this by sending him greeting cards or some simple yet special presents that will let him feel how important your friendship is to you.
You can even send him the traditional letter writing, as this display how much effort you’ve exerted just for him to remember you. Friends are important, so doing this must not do any hardship on your part.
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