Tell Your Friends That You Love Them
You love your friends but you don’t tell them.
We love our friends and they love us too. But none of us tell each other I love you, because we think that “love” is just for romantic partners or couples. But in reality, love is not just limited to the people who are in a romantic relationship. Our love for our friends is not a romantic type of love, but because of our wrong understanding of our concept of love, we think that it is bad to tell our friends that we love them. We care about our friends but we never say to them I care about you. We have to understand that communicating feelings is as important as practicing them.
We are great at practicing feelings with our friends but we never communicate them. We hide our words, we stop ourselves from saying sentences like I love you or I care about you. It happens because it is not normal in our societies to tell our friends that we love them, however in reality we do love them, we just don’t say it. Because something stops us, our mind. We think that if we tell our friends that we love them, they will think something is wrong with us and they will doubt our intentions.
There’s nothing wrong in talking about feelings, actually sharing what we feel makes us an authentic person. While hiding our feelings makes us weak and eventually a coward. We must normalize sharing our feelings of love and care with our friends because it is okay. Today I challenge you to send your friends a message or call them, or if you can meet them then go meet them for one thing, to tell them that you love them, to say “I love you” because you do.
