The first thing you should know about me is that once you are a friend – a TRUE friend, I will always be there for you whenever you need me. Sometimes I may need you to grab me by the chin and point my eyes in your direction, but rest assured once you make it clear to me that you need me to drop what I am doing to help you, I will drop whatever I am doing and I will go to any lengths for you.
When I was a kid I watched someone punch my older brother in the eye. These guys were 2-3 years older than me and that’s a big difference in elementary school. It took 3-4 of my brother’s friends to hold me back when I tried to go after the one who hit my brother. My friends are all my brothers and sisters and I will always go to any length to help and protect you.
I will love you unconditionally. I will not judge you. Even if you do something wrong, I will still love you. I might tell you that I would rather you didn’t do something wrong because as someone who cares about you I do not want to see you get into trouble, but I will not turn my back on you.
I will definitely fall short sometimes. I will make mistakes and I will not pay as much attention to you as I should. As I mentioned above, all that you ever need to do is tell me that you really need me to pay attention and I’ll come running.
There will be times I will come to you and lean on you for help. Some of those times you will not be able to give me what I need. I may be disappointed in the situation, but never in you as a person.
I will always do what I can, where I can, when I can to bring you together with other friends of mine because I believe strongly that the best way we can help one another is to help expand our respective universes. Here’s an example. Last night I had dinner with a friend of mine. He invited another one of his friends. As we were talking it became apparent that he was friendly with someone high up in a company that I happen to know a long time friend of mine wants to work at. I mentioned this to him and he immediately offered that I should put her in touch with him and he will see what he can do. Imagine if I can not only help my friend find a job, but at the exact company she told me about a month ago she was dying to get a job at?! If I can put this together that is worth so much more to me than any amount of money – just knowing that I could do that for someone.
Any time you come to me with negative thoughts, I will almost always try and turn them around into positive ones. I am not ignoring you or discounting either your feelings or your experience. I am merely trying to bring you onto the necessary frequency to deal with all troubles. A positive frequency is much more powerful than a negative one and is also always where you will find the solutions to every single problem. Even when it comes to grieving over the loss of someone close, think about how you want people to respond when you go – I know I want people to always remember and cherish the good times and the gift that we have all had by having one another in each other’s lives.
God bless, and if no one else told you , let me be the one to tell you that I really love you today!
Seth David
Daniel Richman said,
April 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM
I understand where you’re coming from. I go the distance for my friends as well, and in return they always have my back. I’d give examples, but it’s not relevant. We tend to put on “faces” in the public eye, and take things for granted. As humans, it’s our tendency to fight for the gold, the first place award. If we took the time to help one another every day, (which some of us may already) the world would be a better place. Someday, somewhere, SOMEONE will come up with the perfect, simple idea to connect EVERYONE, everywhere. Even those without access to life’s treasures. That’ll be the day that the world turns over.
Seth David said,
April 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Nice! I like that – connecting everyone, everywhere – even the so called “under privileged”!
Daniel Richman said,
April 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM
Well, yeah. If I hadn’t mentioned it before, a LOT of our close, personal friends are homeless. We didn’t choose for them to be that way, but that’s how we met them. We aren’t shy people in the slightest. I make it a goal to be outgoing and meet new people every day. (I highly recommend the grocery store for “new people” hunting.) Anyhow, homeless and underprivileged people deserve every chance we do. If someone could come up with a way to incorporate a business value to the homeless nature, it would make MILLIONS. Not to “promote” being homeless, but to urge them to feel the need to earn an income again. To let the public see them for who they used to be.