Prompt: What kept you
tethered in 2013?
In short: leaning on the people around me.
I have developed and fostered new relationships, and cherished
older ones, as I’ve needed people more this year than ever before. Not in the
way that I’m slowly becoming an extrovert, but in a way that allows me to
better define the difference between intro/extrovert, and really about drawing
strength from one, three, or six friends at a time when I need it. That has not
been something that I’m usually good at – I’m very much the
“Bottle-it-up-until-you-explode” type person. Or, in my case, until I give
myself a flare. Getting to know some of these fantastic people in my life –
from a handful of new friends from Israel, to new work colleagues, new
boyfriends of old friends, and especially “The Kitchen” gals (as The Hubs calls
them). Focusing on these friendships, and even listening to their problems from
time to time has truly made all the difference in what could have been (and
kinda has been) a really terrible year.
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