Friends Place

What Helps? Sometimes we want to be helpful to an adult friend who is feeling bad. How can we offer personal help to a friend? How can we guard against damaging our relationship with them in the process? THREE GUIDING PRINCIPLES 1. Do you really WANT to help? 2. Are you willing to ONLY LISTEN unless they specifically ask for more? 3. Can you pay ... [full story]

Eyes: Will always see you for the way you really are, your true self.       Ears: Will always have them open to listen.         Mouth: To always tell you the truth and give their opinions, tell you when you mess up or do something good.       Shoulders: Will offer when you need one to cry on and will ... [full story]

There are triumphs and testing times in life. The mind is a guide to our happiness. There are pressures that mount up as the bar is high today on performance, life style, knowledge seeking, and enjoying privileges. It is a life of gadgets, ipods, and electronic communication that crosses barriers.We come across many people in life's journey. Some culminate in life long friendships and others ... [full story]

A friend of mine came to visit me. She was very upset and in tears. After a few minutes she blurted out her story. Having had an appointment with her doctor, a follow up to a series of tests she had over the past couple of weeks that I was unaware of, the diagnoses was diabetes2. Knowing what a shock it can be, I started ... [full story]

Just remember those wonderful years, that you spend together with your beloved! Wow! Those amazing moments, which you still cherish and those fascinating memories, which bring a smile on your face, the list is indeed dazzling. Now just come back to the reality, as we are talking about the present scenario and now there is a word "ex" been placed as a 'prefix' before your ... [full story]

Every family member. Every neighbor. Every coworker. Every stranger. Every person is a potential friend.Isn't it strange how the word "friend" conjures closer ties than words like relative, sibling, or even spouse? Yet it is even a double blessing when one's friend happens to also be a husband, wife or family member.Friend. One of the sweetest words in any language, whatever it is called in ... [full story]

So many people are on the internet that it truly comprises a global community. With so many billions of worldwide users, the web makes it seem like it would be easy to reach out and make contact with almost any one. This causes many users to want to find old friends and past acquaintances. With the internet as tool, you can make finding old friends ... [full story]

Life is like a bed of roses when we are younger. Our parents give us all that we need. Never giving us a feel that there is something missing in our lives and we get the best of schools, education and friends.It is we chance upon friends and meet new people. As we grow older our friends stay with us for the rest of our ... [full story]

Internet friends...are you looking for a few?There really has never been a better time than right now to be able to use the internet to find people that can and will add value to our lives. We can look to find anyone from our past, anyone who may have taken a flight with us, anyone who attended a conference the same weekend we did...anyone that ... [full story]

Friends are pillars in life that help you go on and further. Sometimes it feels like the best days with friends will never end. In college or school we meet them everyday. In fact we look forward to meeting them everyday and that's what keeps us going.For some it is very difficult to make friends because they are conservative and introverts. They would never take ... [full story]