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How Do We Choose Our Friends?
A short guide on how to love
How do we choose our friends?
How do we choose the people we subconsciously and yet constantly gravitate towards? Those proverbial furry cushions of unconditional comfort? Those universes that, over time, have become what our monkey minds associate with the word safe space.
How do we know who to talk to without filtering ourselves? Giving ourselves over completely; extracting biblical surrender out of us into what would otherwise be a mundane interaction
Space. That’s how.
Allow me to explain. It’s not what you think.
It’s not that space. Space, which is the vacuum in which Pluto and Mars methodically spin around a giant yellow-orange ball of burning gas past us.
And not that space either. The area between your couch and the coffee table. Space, which is the area between you and that door.
And obviously, it’s not the space of type psychological/emotional distance. The space of choosing to not see that person or anything that reminds you of them.
I am talking inner space here. The space that is usually born out of the fiery pits of some type of inner death(Read that again). For instance, the death of your thoughts and emotions —…
