*“Everyone needs a hand to hold on to.” -John Mellencamp
The great American poet, John Mellencamp, goes on to write and sing: “Everyone needs a hand to hold on to; Don't need to be no strong hand; Don't need to be no rich hand; Everyone just needs a hand to hold on to”. This is so true, and it is a simple fact that we are healthier when we are in supportive relationships. A quick online search revealed more than 91,000 song lyrics, (I did not read them all), with the sentence “hold on.” I will dare say that the majority of those lyrics are addressing human relationships in one form or another. In this age of hit-and-run anonymous social media, we are losing the intimacy of relationship/friendship. Aristotle saw friendship as a state of character and said, “For without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” In The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis writes: “To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.” Oftentimes, we measure our individual value on the number of friends we count. However, true value is in the quality not quantity of those we call friend. Truthfully, having a friend is only one side of the equation, the other side, the most important side is to be a friend, a genuine, authentic, real, no expectations or repayment kind of friend. Today, tomorrow, and the next do not ignore the opportunity for us to be “a hand to hold on to” for that person who truly needs a friend. We collectively need to know friendship is a contact sport! The time is coming all too quickly that we/I will need “a hand to hold on to; Don't need to be no strong hand; Don't need to be no rich hand; Everyone just needs a hand to hold on to”. Grace and Peace, Steve
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Kenya Talley
10/1/2018 01:53:24 pm
Family therapist Virginia Satir once said, “We need four hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
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