The Key to Nurturing Your Relationships

Nurture your relationships with everyone important to you. Otherwise, they will fall away ...

 We can never have enough people in our lives. They form the continuity that is absolutely essential to good quality of life. Seniors report difficulties in retaining friendships in that people pass away or even move away.

What seems almost worse to me is when we let relationships "drift."  We do not pay attention to them and they "drift" away from us, as if we have more important things to be doing, thinking about, or planning. While we have little to no control over people moving, or unfortunately dying, "drifting" can be prevented by paying exquisite attention to our relationships.

However when other are gone, it is important to seek out new relationships.This can difficult to do,The skills to seek, find, and create these new relationships can be learned, but generally from someone who has the training and expertise to guide and mentor the seeker. The need to get connected and be connected is a very human need.

You can let go of almost anything and still feel you have enough, if you nourish your relationships with everyone important to you. And this requires your attention to small details. Let me suggest that these are details that we can easily let slip by us if we are not paying attention to this important task..