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Friendship and mentorship.

By Bamboo In The Wind

Friendship do a whole lot of good to us. It boosts our morale, keeps us honest, and helps us understand ourselves better. Friends cover for our weaknesses, fill our gaps make us learn from each other, and make us excel in what we are good at. 

Friendship teaches us to forgive. We learn to forgive ourselves more so than anyone else. This is a great ability to develop. It makes us act with a rational mind and balanced thinking. Friendships make us live happily, and keep us healthy and grow through our collective life experiences.

Mentorship is a form work friendship that has similar potential to grow us as a person. Real mentors help us see through our inadequacies. They open us to realities of us rather than play into our view of ideal us.

Mentorship is rarely a forced relationship. It's develops into one, if one is patient like we are with friends. There are no hierarchies, no age bar or no similar work experiences.

Friends and mentors cut across, education, language, experience, hobby barriers. They are relationships based purely on how to evolve each other through collective problem solving, exchanges and exposures giving us transparent view as life progresses. 

Relationships like these require investment of time and effort. They provide us the much needed purpose because these relationships create opportunities to develop experiences together. We excel in our lives and get fulfilment only through experiences. Whether in personal lives or professional ones. One needs to seek out and importantly nurture relationships.

Go inspect anyone who looks content and happy and you are certain to find lasting enriching interactions at the base.

But, first, go, seek out!

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