There’s nothing like the support of friends, knowing that there are people who will stand by your side, to get you through. But what happens when you see things differently than your friends, when you are pulled towards an idea, a belief, an interest that is foreign to those who are closest to you? Sometimes friendships are broken by this tug in a new direction, but the deepest connections contain enough elasticity to allow differences not to be divisions.
Who are you bound to with an elastic bond that keeps you connected through all the changes of your life?
My brother is a diehard Republican and observant Catholic. I am a full-blown card carrying Democrat Unitarian. Nevertheless, we stay very close and speak at least every other day.