Posted by pinkeye on June 1, 2005, at 15:00:18
In reply to How does one be a good friend?, posted by Angela2 on May 29, 2005, at 15:23:42
I think there is no such thing as being a good friend, or good wife, or good child or anything. If you are basically a good person, all of these come to you automatically. Maybe there are some techniques that you have to learn for each of it, but essence would be coming out of your basic personality.
So that would be the thing to set right instead of trying out all these cosmetic things - how to be a good wife, how to be a good mom, how to be a good coworker - etc.. these are all little meaningless if your basic personality is set right.
It is like watering the root of the tree instead of trying to fix one leaf and another leaf here and there. I would start with trying to identify what it means to be a good person, and all these would be just following along after that.
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