For this post I decided to write something instead of my normal video because my last vlog took a great deal out of me and I'm really not feeling up to making another. So this will have to do.
The topic I chose for this post is friends because I have never yet talked about it on my blog and I think it's time for that to change.
As almost everyone would tell you, friends are really important and play a significant role in any persons life. I can defiantly say the same, but it wasn't always that way. At one point, I totally closed myself towards people and spent the majority of my time alone for months. From that experience I learned that being alone is awful and that true happiness takes more than just yourself. Spending time with someone that makes you truly happy is always the best way to be.
Since then, I have made many wonderful friends and have often wondered about the chemistry behind it all.
Recently I've heard quite a few people say that knowing someone online "Doesn't count as a true friendship." That the only 100% legitimate friendship can be achieved in person. This argument has been on my mind many, many times since I began an online education, and I can see why a person would say that. Good friends usually know each other well enough that the other person feels like a second identity. I know from rather disappointing experience that developing a friendship that close is extremely difficult online. Another point would be that "true friends" frequently talk and interact with one other on a daily basis. As much as I would like to hang out with my online friends as often as that, it simply cannot be done.
With these limitations, and the many others that ominously loom ahead, are they enough to make that friendship any less real? This has lead me to wonder what conditions must exist for a friendship to thrive?
My answer is that only one condition is necessary. For there to be love. Mutually caring for one another is sufficient and nothing more. If each individual possesses love, it creates an unbreakable spiritual connection that cannot be severed.
To conclude, I would like to share this quote by President Uchtdorf in which he describes this perfectly.
The topic I chose for this post is friends because I have never yet talked about it on my blog and I think it's time for that to change.
As almost everyone would tell you, friends are really important and play a significant role in any persons life. I can defiantly say the same, but it wasn't always that way. At one point, I totally closed myself towards people and spent the majority of my time alone for months. From that experience I learned that being alone is awful and that true happiness takes more than just yourself. Spending time with someone that makes you truly happy is always the best way to be.
Recently I've heard quite a few people say that knowing someone online "Doesn't count as a true friendship." That the only 100% legitimate friendship can be achieved in person. This argument has been on my mind many, many times since I began an online education, and I can see why a person would say that. Good friends usually know each other well enough that the other person feels like a second identity. I know from rather disappointing experience that developing a friendship that close is extremely difficult online. Another point would be that "true friends" frequently talk and interact with one other on a daily basis. As much as I would like to hang out with my online friends as often as that, it simply cannot be done.
With these limitations, and the many others that ominously loom ahead, are they enough to make that friendship any less real? This has lead me to wonder what conditions must exist for a friendship to thrive?
My answer is that only one condition is necessary. For there to be love. Mutually caring for one another is sufficient and nothing more. If each individual possesses love, it creates an unbreakable spiritual connection that cannot be severed.
To conclude, I would like to share this quote by President Uchtdorf in which he describes this perfectly.
"Geographically we are separated, but spiritually we are united."
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