No Woman is an Island
Momma always said “Pamela, No woman is an island”. She was telling me to maintain relationships with friends. Sometimes when we’re all tangled up with our life challenges we back away from connecting friends and acquaintences. We’re tired, we’re super busy, we’re absorbed with handling our challenge and we “abandon” our friendships. YES ABANDON. That’s the way they feel when you stop communicating with them because you’re busy and consumed with whats directly in front of you. Eventually your friends wander off because you’re “not there” to be a friend. If you do that too many times, they feel unappreciated and dont re-engage when you finally come back around to call them. I know this because I’ve been an abandoned friend and I’m in one of those challenges right now.
Abandoning friendships can happen very innocently and usually is not your intent….but it IS what happens.
It’s easy to stay connected
With all the communication options, its much easier to stay connected now. Texting, email, social media and an occassional phone call can be done in 5 minutes or less while reaching a pretty large group of people. Send a text message that says “Hey Just wanted to say Good Morning” as a group text sent as individual conversations (it won’t be a good feeling to receive as a group msg). Take a selfie and attach it to a text message and say “Hi”, haven’t seen YOU in a while ..Miss you too. Send an email to an individual (from you cell phone or your computer) at 5 pm and say “Its quitting time, from the job anyway, and now to run My world…. Talk to you soon! or Miss You” . If you don’t have a twitter account, get one then get Hootsuite so you can send one social media message and post to facebook, linkedin, your blog and other social media accounts that you can associated with Hootsuite. Using Hootsuite will allow you to send once and post to many. If you send a message over 140 characters (Twitters limit) the message will stop at 140 characters and create a link for others to see the remander of your message so don’t let that limit your message.
Now its your turn. Who have you abandoned? Reconnect…send a message now. They miss you as much as you miss them.
Pamela
