Daily Gratitude: “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

This is a perfect description of friendship. When two people are in sync, amazing things happen. Everything is more than doubled. It’s as if there is a rocket in each one of us but the fuel level is extremely low. Then when another person with the same level of consciousness comes into the picture, the fuel pumps are open wide and each rocket’s tank is filled to the brim. Combustion and lift off are then almost automatic.

There’s usually only a few friendships in someone’s life that are that powerful. But each of our friendships should have a special current running through them – a current that unites both parties and strengthens each.

Two people can solve problems together much more efficiently and effectively than one.

Of course it’s like a farmers field. A friendship, like his field, has to be cultivated and nurtured or it will go stagnant and won’t produce healthy crops. So make sure you take care of your field, your friendship. As with everything else inattention will destroy what you’ve built. That maxim applies not just to things but to human relationship as well.