Hello Laura, first of all thank you very much for all the hacks and insights you continuously offer to your readers. I find them so valuable that I habe taken the habit of sharing them with friends :-) . About being the person who is there when no one else is, I can not underline enough how important and crucial that is, in the same sense as you write about it : indeed, life is long and especially feels long during difficult times and it is in dire times that it is crucial to show up for friends, family members or acquaintances going through that kind of times. We all have to generously give to others what we need ourselves, without waiting for them to fill our needs before we give them something back. I have experienced this first hand shortly, going through a very though year with the help of my friends who, for the most of them, helped me from the first moment to go through my personal ordeal and who kept keeping my hand, morally speaking. The lesson for me there : if one behaves friendly and generously with one's close persons, these persons will be there without missing a beat if one experiences tough times. Nobody can survive alone, we humans do not have a fur, pointy teeth and claws, so we need each other basically to survive. So it makes sense to behave in the best way with others.
Hello Laura, first of all thank you very much for all the hacks and insights you continuously offer to your readers. I find them so valuable that I habe taken the habit of sharing them with friends :-) . About being the person who is there when no one else is, I can not underline enough how important and crucial that is, in the same sense as you write about it : indeed, life is long and especially feels long during difficult times and it is in dire times that it is crucial to show up for friends, family members or acquaintances going through that kind of times. We all have to generously give to others what we need ourselves, without waiting for them to fill our needs before we give them something back. I have experienced this first hand shortly, going through a very though year with the help of my friends who, for the most of them, helped me from the first moment to go through my personal ordeal and who kept keeping my hand, morally speaking. The lesson for me there : if one behaves friendly and generously with one's close persons, these persons will be there without missing a beat if one experiences tough times. Nobody can survive alone, we humans do not have a fur, pointy teeth and claws, so we need each other basically to survive. So it makes sense to behave in the best way with others.