Hi Sara
I really enjoyed these words of yours.
Friendship can be difficult sometimes because the friendship is invested in maintaining the status quo. We are judged by the company we keep and those who wish to be seen in a certain way will associate with others that support this.
They value you and try to keep you the same so that they do not have to change.
It seems like we are always confronted with a choice between two forms of pain.
Living truly and possibly alone or living false but surrounded by others.
I also think this is an illusion and that it is possible to live truly and be surrounded by those that love us but we must first find the strength to become comfortable with
loss. Loss of friends, security and a bought measure of inner peace that is dependant on being what others want of us.
Our lives become like a piece of fabric that is torn in half when we move from being
what others know to what they do not know and to the degree they value the friendship they will resist your changes.
Only those who have gone walked threw the fire of becoming who they were destined to be will understand the importance of allowing you to be who you were meant to be.
"If a person does not keep pace with their companions, perhaps it is because they hear a different drummer. Let them step to the music which they hear, however measured or far away". Henry David Thoreau
