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've 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 CS Lewis said a few episodes back,

friendships of the Great.

So I came across a website called Science of People.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... 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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