The colour of
your life is, in part, taken from the colours and vibrancy of your friends.
Your life is like a patchwork quilt in which you are but a single square with your
friends surrounding you. If you are lucky you will be part of an enormous quilt
of friends, enough to wrap around you when you feel cold. Some people are not
so lucky and have only a few colours to warm them.
If you are lucky enough
to be part of a magnificent quilt take a moment to think where your friends came
from. For quilts to grow and be strong they need the strong threads that hold
them together.
In life it is
special people who are those threads. Generous with their friends and always
looking for those whose patchwork support is slight or damaged. Those who are
new to an area, those who have gone through bad times, those who lack the
social skills to fit in easily. These special people, these golden threads in life, will find
ways to introduce those people to others, to help them join in, to help the build
or rebuild their patchwork of friends.
Do you do that?
Do you reach out beyond your own circle to allow others a way to join?
I write this
because there is one special lady I know who I have watched introduce people over
the last four years. Selfless, caring and without the need for self attention.
A truly beautiful golden thread indeed and one who we should try to emulate.
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