Cicero and Friends

Along the lines of the previous post: I BEG of you, fellow post-grads, do not throw away your friendships! Over the next few months you will see your friend pool shrink, almost vanish, because we are all so caught up in our own daily dramas that we don't have time to invest in the people we say we love. If there's one thing my Dad taught me, it's that "relationships are everything." No man is an island. We are nothing without our support systems. How many times have people jammed the word "networking" down our throats? Well here's another word: Love. Love people. Love people and watch your life get better.

I got this quote by Cicero out of Kelly Cutrone's book Normal Gets You Nowhere. There's a lot that I disagree with her about, but she makes some VERY good points as well. This reference, I thought, was spot on:

"What can be more delightful than to have someone to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy? On the other hand, misfortunes would be hard to bear if there were not someone to feel them even more acutely than yourself...Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it. And great and numerous as are the blessings of friendship, this certainly is the sovereign one, that it gives us bright hopes for the future and forbids weakness and despair. In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self. So that where his friend is he is; if his friend be rich, he is not poor; though he be weak, his friend's strength is his; and in his friend's life he enjoys a second life after his own is finished."

Yes, friends will let you down. Usually over and over and just as many times as you let them down. But for heaven's sake, don't just give up on people because it's the easy way out! That is the way to an empty life. Carry each others' burdens. May God bless us all with friendships like this.

Now umm...let me lighten things up a bit...see more food pictures below:

Yum :)