Friendship Bracelet - What does friendship mean to you?
TOUGH QUESTION, TL;DR INCOMING.
I've struggled a lot with thinking friendship meant supporting your friends no matter what and letting them walk all over you, and also with thinking my good friends should just be able to just read my mind - isn't it obvious how I’m thinking/feeling at any given time? (Spoilers: it is not.)
Now I think friendship means sharing the way you feel about something, and building a connection from there. It also means being able to communicate the good (I love you, something good happened in my life and I want to share, I'm happy for you) and the bad (you've hurt my feelings, I need space, what you did wasn't cool) in a safe way.
I've also learned that friendships don't have to last forever: people can make a big difference even if you're only friends for a short time, not every friendship has to be a lifelong thing.
But I'm still learning. I want to be better at intentionally curating my friendships like I would with plants, and also at cutting off toxic people when my gut tells me to instead of trying and trying.
Planter - Do you have a green thumb?
...maybe the plant metaphor was bad 😂 Scratch that. No, I'm bad at plants, but I'm trying very hard to learn!!