Connections

This week has been unusually busy and I'm exhausted from the effort of being sociable. While I'm generally a friendly person, making new, and lasting, connections doesn't always come easily. There is a side of me that wants to just give up and run away from the prospect of cultivating more relationships.

I know that relationships take effort to cultivate and maintain. I truly get excited about the prospect of forming a deep connection with someone. Where I can continually peel back the layers and learn something new about them while being being surrounded by the comfort of their familiarity.

So, despite the temptation to cut myself off from the new people in my life and just maintain the relationships I already have, I have been putting in the effort. Will all of them pan out into lasting relationships? Who knows, maybe not. Maybe that's not the point. Maybe making the effort despite the risk is the point.