This is episode 1,723. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for being right where you are as you get ready to give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity. In today's episode, we are at the very tail end of our series we've been exploring this

week on friendship.

And throughout this series, you have been gaining insight and skills and meditation techniques to give you clarity and confidence

and energy as you cultivate friendships and maintain those friendships in your life you have.

You've discovered some wisdom from different people

throughout the ages who have written about friendship. Well, in today's episode, I want to

share with you some insight from a little modern day perspective on what it's like to make friends

today because we do live in a time that is unlike any other time where people are transient.

And although we might feel like we're connected socially,

a lot of the connection is not a deep inner connection with someone.

It's more of a superficial connection. And so throughout this

series, I have encouraged you to honor the best part of who you are, your talents, your passions, and to seek out new friendships

based on interests you already have and talents and passions that you already possess. That way you're not having to change yourself

to make friends. There are people out there who are just like you and also people who may have

different passions and interests from you. And as they say, sometimes opposites attract.

But if you have similar values, that is where you are able to cultivate what C.S. Lewis said

a few episodes back, friendships of the great.

So I came across a website called Scienceofpeople.com.

And this is an article by them called How to Make Friends.

And in this article, they talk about how to build connections.

And what I especially liked about the approach in this article is they recommend searching

for a friend the same way you would search for a soulmate.

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