One little thought I have about self love is this: it is so important to learn to love oneself before loving others. In my opinion, you can not learn to love anyone until you love God first. I think that by loving God, you are able to love yourself because you are a creation of Him and you are made in his image, and through that love and wisdom you are able to love others.
Another thing I have been pondering is how often one’s friendships dissolve. I didn’t really want to admit to having dissolved friendships before, however it is very true. When one changes it is most likely that the nature of the friendship will change. It might change into more of an acquaintance relationship but unless the friend makes a big change and you are making a change with the friend, you won’t be like-minded and the friendship will have a hard time surviving. I think that there are only a few friendships that will last a lifetime and that those are the “strong” friendships that Aristotle talks about. One may have many other friendships but they usually only last for a time. Friendship is used so freely in today’s age and I don’t think that people actually take the time to ponder what it means. When you go off to college you really discover who your true friends are and the others even though you may call them your friends are more like associates/acquaintances. You don’t have time to keep up with all of your friends in high school and you don’t have the energy to keep them alive, for the most part. Even though you may reunite with them over breaks and over the summer, you are just enjoying the pleasure of their presence more than the effort of your friendship. I was kind of defensive of this concept at first but as I have been in College this is one thing that I really have come to grasp.
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