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“I have a friend who's shown up for me for decades and I want to honor that.”
A friendship that lasts decades is not luck - it is two people who kept choosing it. The gratitude you feel is real and worth acting on. What is yours here is your half of it: the showing up, the honesty, the loyalty returned. Tend your half and tell him it mattered.
Your Practice
- Name the times he showed up. Be specific - vague gratitude fades.
- Tell him directly what his loyalty has meant. Don't wait for an occasion.
- Name your half of the friendship and recommit to carrying it.
- Do one concrete thing this month to show up for him.