Phone calls and getting together are musts for best friends.
It is hard to make time in a busy day and busy life to maintain our friends but you don't have to have hours to spare to maintain a friendship, I've learned. Try the following to keep from neglecting your friends:
- Send frequent email. Email is a boon for a quick note.
- Call. Phone calls do not take long.
- Keep in touch through brief messages left on answering machines.
- Send an occasional card. Funny and/or appropriate cards take minutes to choose and address.
- Exercise together. We all have to exercise. It is more fun with a friend, plus, there is no better place for talking than a walk in the park.
- Clean house together. This is another must do and two makes cleaning fun instead of boring.
- Send pictures. A picture is still worth a thousand words.
- Go to lunch together.
Study after study shows that people who have close confidants have feistier immune systems, stronger cardiovascular health and less depression and anxiety — not to mention the fact that they have more fun!
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson
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