#friendhips

[maddylucasphoto]

Jump!

[littlecatholiclady91]

when you miss someone who doesn't miss you :( gah 

[happytakes]

2025.07.09 | Life experiences are complicated and hard to navigate. These 3 simple rules should help us wade through and weed out our social engagements so we can focus our energy on the people who we truly care for and who truly care for us.

[happytakes]

2025.02.03 | "It means creating a safe container for active listening, while witnessing and validating another’s emotional state and allowing and accepting whatever journey or process they’re on to naturally unfold, while simultaneously showing up with tenderness, affectionate understanding, unconditional support, complete non-judgment, an honoring of any differences, and a total release of any kind of control."

Read more here.

[happytakes]

2023.11.08 | We all become sad when we and our friends grow apart, but that is a natural part of life. We grow apart so we can grow individually. We may come together again when we have grown enough to be ready to meet each other.

[happytakes]

Assume people like you (they probably do)

Text a friend, write a thank-you note, compliment a stranger — people appreciate these gestures.

2023.04.12 | Do you also experience this 'liking gap'?

"The persistent underestimation of how much others enjoy our company is known as the liking gap, dubbed by Sandstrom and her colleagues in a 2018 paper."

[talvenhenki]

Friendships are super weird

like

I know a lot of people and talk to them frequently and I greet them when I see them on the street etc. but like. I don’t rly feel like I am their friend. I know how to appear sociable because it’s expected of me but most of the time I spend talking to a workmate or someone at the uni, I might not even know who that person is. I just talk to them to pass time because I know that if I don’t talk to them I will start daydreaming and that’s not a good idea when there are ppl around

And idk I don’t know where the line between ‘person I know’ and ‘my friend’ goes, I’ve never been able to tell where it is and sometimes I end up telling way too personal things to ppl who are virtually strangers to me

And tbh most of the ppl I really would want to see either live too far away or are simply too busy to meet up with me so I end up spending most of my time with ppl I barely know and tbh I never ask the ppl I wanna see if they wanna meet up anyway because it’s kind of scary because what if they don’t want to or they don’t have the time to and idk. Maybe I should just work more on my friendships

[webanatural]

#Ballywood, anyone? #streetfestivals #dancingfools💃 #exerciser #summerfun☀️ #friendhips #streetshot #flashmob