Positivity: Amongst Friends

There is nothing quite like time amongst friends.

I got to spend a long weekend with some amazing friends.  There was tons of great conversation, inside jokes, laughter, and camaraderie.  I got to spend quality time with my chosen family, got to build better friendships with others, and even made several new friends along the way.

There is nothing quite like friendship to generate positive energy.  I am always pleasantly surprised by how swiftly hanging out with friends makes me feel good.

We are social creatures, which can be easy to forget.  Despite the internet and social media and every other form of communications available to us, face-to-face person-to-person time with one another is essential to our overall wellbeing.  We need time in a situation in which we are unquestionably not alone in this world.

Sometimes our friends are the closest people to us.  They “get” us.  They understand us.  They know our sense of humor, they know how we view the universe.  While you are born into your family, you choose the people you call friends…or they choose you.

Like everything else, friendships are imperfect.  We argue, we fight, sometimes we cause feelings to be hurt.  But when all is said and done it is our friends who reach out to us when they see we are in need, it is friends whom you can turn to for assurance, assistance, and sometimes just an ear or a shoulder to release emotions to.

It is essential to health and happiness to socialize.  Finding time to spend with your friends out and about in the world can generate an amazing amount of positive energy.  When we are constantly inundated by bad news and negativity, anything that can generate more positivity can go a long ways towards keeping us happier.  Anything that helps to make us happy keeps us thinking more positively.  Thinking more positively allows us to create better lives for ourselves.  When our own lives are better, we influence our friends just as they influence us for the better.  When more of us are positive, we generate more positivity for everyone.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action.  Knowing that you need to be social, making time to spend amongst friends is essential to health and wellbeing for happiness.  When we are happy, we are more positive.  When you make time to relax, enjoy the company of others and laughter and general social time, having a circle of people around you who are like-minded generates positive energy.  When you have more positive energy for yourself and you share it with your friends, you generate for all the world around you more Positivity.  Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the sixteenth entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to re-blog and spread the positivity.