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Intentional
The past year has been anything but conventional. The world has seen things that most people didn’t even think of as possibilities. This is a weird time to be living in and it can be hard to navigate. The last several months has seen long spans of nonsocial time for lots of people, and I think that is really taking a toll on many. Due to all of this I think it is more important now than ever to live intentionally.
This past week I really thought hard about all the people in my life and how COVID has impacted my friendships. Being a college student, in a non-COVID time I easily could’ve seen and interacted with well over a hundred people in a week; now I am seeing and interacting with maybe ten people in a week. As I thought about this and as I also thought about how I am coming close to the end of my college career, I realized there was a large group of people that I considered to be good friends that I haven’t had a meaningful interaction with in months. And as I thought about this harder I realized that if I don’t have a meaningful interaction with them in the next few months, I might not ever really interact with them ever again - and that was a super sad realization!
Now, I am not trying to be a huge downer here, but I hope you are starting to see my point. It is easy in this crazy time to settle into your socially-distanced rhythm where you are only interacting with the same few people every week. And when I say “interacting,” I don’t necessarily mean in-person. These interactions could also be over the phone, via zoom, a socially distanced picnic, or really anything else. My point is that I think a lot of people are passively letting lots of their relationships die out a little bit right now.
So that is my challenge to you this week: be intentional! Call that person that you haven’t talked to in a while, throw a virtual party with a broader group of friends, have a picnic with a small group of people; whatever it may be, do it! All I am saying is I think it is important to be conscious of these things and not let relationships die out just because it is harder to keep them up now. At the end of the day one of the biggest factors that leads to a growing relationship is intentionality - and that is being seen now more than ever before!
Stay Motivated,
-Dan
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