🇬🇧 About friendships

This is a text about friendships.

I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad, and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. In recent years I have experienced an intense healing process from emotional traumas. I believe that personal style is intertwined with lifestyle and personal development, so in this blog I share personal reflections and a little about my lifestyle.

• Not everyone will like you the way you are. Friends value and respect us for exactly who we are and support our growth without hurting or forcing us. It's not about pretending we're perfect and don't need to improve, but about respecting our time and, when we decide to improve, they're there cheering for our victory and supporting as much as possible. And when we fall, we can count on our friends' shoulders to cry on, and their support to pick us up and move on.
• Whoever wants good friends must be a good friend. And knowing when to cut relationships if there is no reciprocity. Friendship is a two-way street.
• Friendship requires emotional connection. It's not about who likes to go to parties with you, or listen to the same kind of music you like, or spend a lot of time together. If there is no emotional connection, it is not friendship, they are acquaintances with common interests.
• Friends don't have to solve our problems. But if they disappear or turn their backs on us when we are going through difficulties, they are not true friends. Showing up after the storm has passed saying they were rooting for us is not support. Any support that comes along with some form of disrespect is also an attitude that excludes the person from the friend classification.

I believe these points also apply to romantic relationships.

Share your opinion and experiences in the comments.

Nycka