Daily Inspiration - Learn to recognize true friends

Learn to recognize true friends. 

 

A true friend may be hard to recognize at first. Many obese people have had inferiority issues their entire lives, and hence sometimes let others treat them in ways that are negative, even abusive. Abusive, unkind people are like unsightly weeds in our gardens.  

A true friend builds you up, makes you stronger, and supports your healthy growth. True friends are like water on a thirsty flower bed. They feed your soul. 

Action for the day: Spend some time thinking about your friends today. Do they support your healthy growth? It may be time to "pluck some weeds." 

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You know this is so true. Thank you for this post it is a eye opener and I for one have a hard time recognizing who my true friends are.

No prob....I'm the same way.  I give people WAY too much credit and then become disappointed when they are not who they say they are.

I second this and AMEN!!!!

This is so true - some of the people I most admired before surgery are not what I thought they were either. I found out afterwards they they do not do what they say they did and they do a lot of things that I consider they should not do and are not the example I thought they should be....... ALthough I never really befriended them I was so disappointed in them. So it is really hard to know who your true friends are but many of mine I have had since before surgery and nothing had changed for me. I just need to pick my idols better lol!! Jackie