Cultivating Friendships II

People survive and thrive through our social connections, and our relationships and friendships can bring us a lot of happiness! Yet it does take effort to cultivate those friendships, and to connect with people. Let’s take some time this month to do that work deliberately, and to celebrate all of the benefits that our friendships can bring! This challenge offers a chance to build resilience through strengthening our social connections.

Daily:

Connect with a friend! (This includes partners and family, if you consider them friends.)

To Do:

Surprise a friend with something awesome!

Make time to hang out with someone you like but rarely see.

Reflection:

The timing of this challenge ended up making it a very different thing than it might have been coming even only a month later! Cultivating friendships transitioned soon after this challenge into an online affair, or a masked and distanced outdoor thing. I’m lucky enough to be living with two other adults, so the isolation of our household from in-person relating with the outside world has not been too bad, but my heart hurts for everyone who has been so isolated.