{"id":1667,"date":"2009-03-18T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2009\/03\/fresh-living-friends-for-a-sea.html"},"modified":"2009-03-18T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T09:00:38","slug":"fresh-living-friends-for-a-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2009\/03\/fresh-living-friends-for-a-sea.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Living: Friends for a Season or a Lifetime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Reiss <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/friends-a-reason-a-season-or-a-lifetime.html\">asks some great questions about friendship in a post on Fresh Living<\/a>. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s something about betrayal or abandonment in friendship that often feels harsher than that of a lover. Partly because (and pardon if I sound a wee bitter) we almost expect romantic partners to hurt us or be transient; friends are supposed to be for life. But recently one friend helped me see this loss differently when he passed along wisdom from a spiritual teacher: People are in our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/friends-a-reason-a-season-or-a-lifetime.html\">Check out her thought-provoking post by clicking here.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>To read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\">Beyond Blue, go to http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue<\/a>, and to get to <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/beyond_blue\">Group Beyond Blue, a support group at Beliefnet Community, click here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=611738&amp;loc=en_US\">To subscribe to &#8220;Beyond Blue&#8221; click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rss.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/import\/imgs\/rss.gif\" width=\"45\" height=\"44\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Reiss asks some great questions about friendship in a post on Fresh Living. 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