5-MINUTE FRIDAY: In Favor Of Talking To Strangers
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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One of your closest friends was someone you didn't know at one time. Reflecting on the good of getting outside of your comfort zone, especially as I get older, and I answer a listener question about what I do with nights living at home solo.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hey everyone. What's going on? Emily Botti here. You are listening to Five |
| 0:26.6 | Minute Friday from Hurtle. Something that really resonated with me today that I want to talk about this week is the fact that at one point or another, |
| 0:37.0 | someone that is wildly important to you in your life was a stranger. |
| 0:44.0 | Let that sink in for a second. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm going to say it again. |
| 0:47.0 | There are people right now that are your closest humans, |
| 0:51.0 | your closest friends in your life that at one point they were someone you |
| 0:55.4 | didn't know and I bring this to the feed today because it was so funny I went to yoga with a friend of mine who I met a few years ago in the city and after |
| 1:08.2 | yoga we grabbed coffee and I bumped into one of my closest friends' husbands. |
| 1:16.0 | And I met both of them also in the city. |
| 1:19.0 | And I have this moment as I was sitting there |
| 1:21.9 | drinking my coffee that it really hit me how lucky I am not only to have such great people in my life but also the fact that there was something that brought these people into my orbit. |
| 1:37.0 | And especially as we get older, it's so difficult to expand your circle and candidly many people I know at this point aren't really that |
| 1:48.0 | interested in doing so. But I know because of the good that I've seen that comes from opening up and |
| 1:55.1 | getting vulnerable with new people and reaping the benefits of these fresh |
| 1:59.4 | relationships that there is good that can happen when you allow yourself to simply be open. |
| 2:09.0 | And by choosing that path instead of saying to myself, oh I'm not really interested in |
| 2:15.0 | getting to know someone new, I am better for it. And so knowing that you have the opportunity regardless of whatever is going on in |
| 2:26.2 | your relationships right now to look back in a year from now and think, I had absolutely no idea about the people who would enter my life, |
| 2:37.4 | I had no idea about how they could change my world, and how lucky am I to have had the experiences with the people that I have. |
| 2:48.2 | Some perspective, if you will. My thought prompt for you this week is who is one person you are very thankful for in your life. Why is that and then I challenge you to tell them that today. |
| 3:03.6 | Who is one person in your life |
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