Dear Friends,
Our Theme for August is:
I am on a shared Journey with Friends for many years now. In the day-to-day hustle it is easy to take it for granted. Therefore, I will use this month's Theme to appreciate it.
The above picture reminded me how colourful and exquisite our shared Journey is at times! :)
Please enjoy Lady Elizabeth's thrilling sharing!
With all my love, (BH) Milen
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My dear friends,
Happy Month! Happy August! Already!
I have come to learn on my journey on the Warrior’s Path that life is all about relationships, nothing more, nothing less.
For example, I have an uneasy relationship with my bed these days, because of the relationship I am having with my legs, which legs are teaching me all about forbearance, as if I didn’t already have enough t-shirts in that regard! LOL!
Mostly what I have learned is that friendship is the most difficult relationship that there is. And yet…
“the primary objective upon the Warrior's Path is, to put it quite simplistically, to learn the true meaning of friendship.“
Why difficult? Well, because you can walk away at any point in time! There is no paper to keep you together; there are no court documents, most times no vows and for sure with no shared children why stay connected? If you find yourself peeved with your friend and or triggered by their behaviour, why stick around?
I have walked out on many friendships in my life, especially from those friends who created me big enough to take their truth – and I have figuratively spat on their courage and risk and honesty. Once I woke up in the madness of the dream, I was aghast at how conditional had been my behaviour and how many of the most precious of potential friendships I had sabotaged.
Once on the Warrior’s Path I learned to become my own best friend and thus have come to value each and every person who appears in my life, even the ones I initially find enormously difficult with whom to connect.
In fact, now that I look at it, I have the most beautiful spider’s web of friendships in my life and that is because in many cases we have crossed the burning fields together – and survived.
I read this somewhere recently: -
“The deepest friendships are not found—they’re made in the moments when the world burns around you and someone stays.”
Today I have had the privilege to share with a friend what turned out to be a cloak and dagger kind of day lol. Many years ago, I entered into a loan agreement with a “friend” who subsequently absconded with all the money – a large sum – and did a disappearing act ☹ A while later my lawyer reminded me that if I was going to seek redress I better act as the debt was about to prescribe.
With some reluctance I gave the go ahead, based on one fact and that as a warrior I must leave no stone unturned. So I gave the go ahead without any expectations of any outcome other than my own sense of impeccability.
The years have rolled on with this legal case – I have been accused of forging a signature, fabricating 2000 emails, you name it! And yet we ploughed on year after year – now of the mindset just to put one legal foot in front of the other – and suddenly about a month ago, my delinquent debtor decided to settle!! I nearly fell off my socks – and today the first physical payment arrived via courier, in a crumpled up dirty black plastic bag, collected on the side of a road.
So I sit writing this now, a second installment to come next month, and yet I am feeling no high from the outcome. Instead, I am sitting with such an appreciation of the sheer doggedness of my lawyer, and I now value her more than ever as a friend as opposed to “my lawyer”.
AND, what is affecting me most deeply, is the unconditional love in action I have experienced with my friend who has been standing quietly next to me through this whole saga, and yet in the past two days as all the cloak and dagger stuff began, he exploded into a ball of fiery action, ensuring I showed no mercy, granted no quarter.
"Friendship is an act of the heart and, as such, it can never be bought, forced or won through manipulation. Friendship can only ever come from the heart, and in the final analysis the only COST of friendship is the UNWAVERING WILLINGNESS to BE that friend! Nothing else is required; not clever words, not clever jokes, and not clever games."
I am blessed, in-deed.
Enjoy our theme this month, my friends. August is a good month to seek out true friendship.
With all my love, (BH)s Elizabeth
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