Friendship
Preserve and maintain the relationships with the friends who matter most.
A connected life rests on a small number of real friendships — the people you’d call in the middle of the night. Most of us let them drift, because nothing is asking us to tend them.
Friendship is the module for tending. To name your closest friends, to write down what you love about them, to reach out before too much time passes, and to bring more soul to the relationships that already matter.
Anam Cara — the soul friend
The Irish phrase anam cara means soul friend — the person to whom you can reveal the most hidden parts of yourself without fear. John O’Donohue wrote a beautiful book about it.
Coming soon to the Friendship module…
- Name your closest friends and what you love about each
- Six words about a friend (a small, alive description)
- Gentle reach-out reminders without streaks or pressure
- Clarify the agreements that hold the friendship
- A page that lets a friend know what they mean to you
Design this with me
Friendship is one of the modules where my own picture is still fuzzy. I have a few ideas; I’d love to be talked out of mine and into yours.
If you’ve thought hard about how real friendships work, or you tend yours well and want to help shape what this becomes — write to hello@oneconnectedlife.org.