Day 3: Gratitude Challenge Today, I am grateful for my friends. Many people say they have few true friends... Not me! I make friends easily and I never lose friends, no matter what, so my friendships are 5, 10,20,30 years and counting! My true friends are sooo numerous and all so amazing! Most of my blessings God used my friends to bring them to pass. My friends will defend me, support me, believe in me, trust me , celebrate me, scold me, weep with me, cheer me; they are some of my greatest support in this life. I have very dependable friends who will do anything for me (except break God s laws! Lol) even though I may not stay in touch with them, sometimes for years ( thank God for Facebook that has made that a little easier) whenever we connect again, its like those years never happened! I have truly great friends! Like one of my long standing friend and brother Gboyega Okegbenro mentioned on Day 1, Loyalty is the hallmark of friendship for me. I will give anything to make my friends happy and successful even when they dont ask me! (Some people consider it meddlesomeness and it has gotten me in trouble a few times but when I call you friend, I take it to mean you have given me a perpetual license to be part of your life and I take that seriously!) In the course of making friends, I have met genuinely amazing people in my life. I will put them in categories though many of them cut across sha! 1. My girlfriends: I dont know who came up with the saying that women are their own worst enemies because that is NOT my experience. My girlfriends are not just friends to me; they are my sisters! In every sense of the word. At the lowest points in my life, my girlfriends have been my succor! When my life practically unravelled before me in 2007, my wonderful friensters ( friends and sisters) rallied round me to hold me up. My girlfriends believe in me more than I believe in myself sometimes. They follow me on many of my harebrained projects even when they know my attention span can be quite short! They pray for me, laugh with me, cry though my heartbreaks with me and rejoice with my every success. My girlfriends include me in their families because they dont want me to feel alone. I am the best fun Aunty of their children, the only approved girlfriend of their husbands, the additional daughter of their parents, the extra sibling of their brothers and sisters. I am exceptionally grateful for my girlfriends! (I deliberately left out names cos I dont want to leave any of you out but I say thank you from the depth of my soul! Thanks for always being there for me! You are the best! Group 2: My Male Friends: There is a popular perception that men and women cannot have deep platonic friendships. I guess I am an exception to that rule because some of my deepest, most genuine friendships in life are with men and none of them has ever been anything more than that .. True platonic friendships! Maybe because I grew up gender blind, I tend to bond with the menfolk easily and God brought some of the most amazing men across my path. My male friends ( cant call them boyfriends because it could be misconstrued and then, they are no longer boys anyway; dem don old finish! Lol) are the older brothers I never had. They taught me how to deal with men cos I had no clue for many years! I am a project for quite a few of them! Lol My male friends are my sparring partners. They treat me with respect, they are not threatened by my intelligence and they never put me down. Rather they celebrate me and endure my gra gra cos they see beyond the facade that I am just a softie trying to protect herself from hurt. My male friends are my Voltrons (defenders of my universe). When I need them, they show up for me. One of them paid my rent once when I was broke! They are my go-to guys when those male chores get tough (car trouble, artisan wahala, etc) Oh did I mention that they all have amazing wives, all of who are also my friends too? My life would be a tough one but for these wonderful caring and dependable brothers and friends who have stuck with me irrespective of distance, work and my over sabi attitude sometimes. Again, I deliberately left out names so I dont omit any of you. I am most grateful for your friendship and thank you for enduring me for these many years! You rock! 3. Group 3: My Destiny Connectors - these are my friends irrespective of gender who have made great things happen in my life. These my friends have connected me to most of the breakthroughs in my life deliberately or inadvertently. Because we met, my life has benefitted through their friendship. These wonderful angels spoke for me on projects, jobs, businesses and relationships all of which has made my life the success it is today. You are all so appreciated and I thank God for bringing you into my life. What you have made happen in my life, may God make happen in yours too. Thank you, thank you THANK YOU! As I thank God for enriching my life with these wonderful people I call my friends, one song comes to my mind... Friends by Shalamar. I could have written that song myself. Friends...Ive got Friends... Lord, thank You for my friends...
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:27:18 +0000
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