These
days, thanks to social media making friends and connecting with people from
across the globe has become easy. But building friendships based on trust, honesty,
loyalty, integrity and respect is the challenging part. Like in every relationship
honesty, trust, love, compassion and appreciation are required to cherish one
another.
I have to
say working on my Blogger magazine Read My Mind and other international projects this year made me learn a lot about
myself. I have to admit that there were a few situations where my loyalty to
myself was tested and I completely failed!!! Perhaps because I will never understand why
kindness, support and generosity backfires on one in a hurtful way, when you
least expect it and from people who you least think of. Nevertheless I won’t
change my trustworthy, honest and supportive way, because that’s who I am.
Although
next time when I want to support unknown people (so called friends on social
media) I will make sure that they are worth my time, my effort, my friendship
and my loyalty. Despite the few setbacks and disappointments I have to thank
those who came into my life and left for good. THANK YOU for being nothing but
pretenders, two-faced, dishonest and disloyal. You, yes you inspire me for my
next educational books for children and YA, where all my stories are about friendship,
honesty, loyalty and trust. I have and I always will detest dishonesty and will
be an advocate for kindness, respect and integrity as long as I live.
Dishonesty is a disgraceful behaviour and an unforgiveable sin. As I always say you can fool yourself. You can fool people for a while but you can’t fool God! Let me use a quote from my book “Teddy & Lily, True Friendship is Unconditional Loyalty”: “Making friends is easy, but keeping friends is the difficult part. Friendship is like a flower. It needs daily love and care to blossom. If you forget to give it water, the flower dies. It’s as simple as that!”
Dishonesty is a disgraceful behaviour and an unforgiveable sin. As I always say you can fool yourself. You can fool people for a while but you can’t fool God! Let me use a quote from my book “Teddy & Lily, True Friendship is Unconditional Loyalty”: “Making friends is easy, but keeping friends is the difficult part. Friendship is like a flower. It needs daily love and care to blossom. If you forget to give it water, the flower dies. It’s as simple as that!”
Another
true quote is: “Friendship is like a book. It takes a few seconds to burn it. But
it takes years to write it!”
Anyway I’m
already working on the spring issue 2018 with new and exciting columns and
using my horrible experiences with dishonest people for new book projects that
will be published in 2018. So again THANK YOU for educating me and reminding me
of who I am and who I never want to be!
I also like
to use this opportunity and thank my blog readers. Please spread your love and
make sure that everyone knows about Read My Mind Magazine and be assured that I
will offer you more exciting, entertaining, educating and inspiring articles
and books. Remember: Whatever you do always be honest and loyal to yourself. And
don’t allow liars to fool you or use your trust, your time and your kindness! My last quote for today is: “Remember honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect
it from cheap people!"
See you
in 2018!
Lily Amis
