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Splash No. 131 - Joy in Others

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Joy in Others The label of “best friend” enticed me. To be called a friend was an accomplishment, but a best friend? That was the stuff of legends. As a kid, I suffered from an inability to make friends — not only because I was shy, but also because I never like I had a strong enough definition to classify the people in my life as such. Were we friends or acquaintances? Acquaintances or peers? The lines were blurry, and it all seemed so arbitrary to me. I drew my own lines in the sand and imagined a version of a best friend akin to a romance novel’s depiction of a soul mate — a perfect match in every way, without a single fault to be found. And I thought that my inability to find such a person indicated that I was bad at friendship, a loner unable to rise in the ranks of camaraderie. In reality, I was someone who had impossible standards for the people I wanted in my life, making it hard for me to keep anyone arou

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