This last weekend I went to visit my best friend at her university in Durham and met all of her friends up there for the first time. Whereas I have had a less than good experience with the people at my university, she has had a great experience and has met great people who I'm sure have become lifelong friends. I really enjoyed the weekend, seeing my best friend for the first time in a few months as well as meeting new people. For the first time in a long time I found myself consistently surrounded by what seemed to be genuinely very good people for an amount of time. On the train home I felt that warm contentedness you feel after you've spent time around people who you feel are just good people and the urge to be better because of that.
I think that weekend has helped me to fully understand why it is so important to surround yourself with great people. I didn't get to know the people especially well but there was just a really good vibe. I've found this with a few people I've met at university. Sometimes, after I meet some people I just get this feeling of peace and contentedness. That feeling is a great feeling and its not one I have been accustomed to recently. Its a feeling that lasts for a little while and then leaves but is always good, never bad. Its a feeling that makes me want to strive to be better: think more, write more, find more.
So I came away from this last weekend with two main goals: follow that feeling in the people I surround myself with and try to be a person who can give that feeling to others.
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