heart to heart
Have you ever experienced that thing where you are sitting opposite someone who is talking to you but you are not really hearing them because you are distracted by something going on behind their eyes?
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life and friends
Is a ‘friend’ just a person who you like and who likes you back or is a friend someone special. Someone you can be yourself with. Someone you can trust with your inner thoughts. Someone who will share your silence as happily as your banter. Are friends the people who you trust to influence the decisions you make in life?
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taking care of the donkey
Short-term romance is fine; we can throw all our energy at it without being too concerned about the responsibilities, intensities, frustrations, aspirations, commitments, consequences and enrichments of long-term love.
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golden cage
For every singing bird that seeks a place in your heart, a dozen crows with bad attitudes are looking for a quick fix. I guess that’s the dilemma. So open your heart just wide enough for singing birds to squeeze in and keep a baseball bat for the crows you meet.
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moon and stars
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fools kiss
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sneaking in
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broken bones and broken hearts
You can live a full life and not suffer a broken bone, but you are unlikely to live a full life and not suffer a broken heart.
A broken bone is a broken bone and relatively simple to fix. A broken heart is a broken spirit – the sum of the emotional turbulence that follows the loss or rejection of a friend, a lover, a relationship.
Complex emotional turbulence including depression, anxiety, embarrassment, humiliation, confusion, distress, grief, sadness, apprehension, stress. Fixing a broken heart requires a change of emotional perspective to calm the turbulence: a friend was devastated when the guy she was seeing dumped her. Then her mother kindly pointed out how everyone thought he was way too short for her anyway. He was…
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love and applied friction
We pursue relationships to satisfy some need and we pursue close relationships in search of love, passion and happiness. Close relationships generate friction and friction erodes our willingness to forgive the stuff that generates the friction: disputes, disharmony, disunity, conflict, hostility, rivalry, animosity, resentment and jealousy.
So maintaining close relationships requires knowledge of the limits of tolerance in ourselves and those around us when we do the stuff that creates the friction. Unfortunately tolerance can be pushed beyond its elastic limit…
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World of Woodnuts 