Having a relationship is a very important
thing to have in life. A relationship can be with your guy friends, a
girlfriend, or family related. When people think of relationships, they usually
think of having a girlfriend or boyfriend. Having a good relationship with your
family is very important. It is always good to have a nice relationship with
your family because you can gain trust and you know that they are always there
for you. When you are in a relationship with a boyfriend or girlfriend, they
can always judge you by how they want you and not always be true to you.
Your family will always tell you the truth
and will not say things they do not mean just for acceptance. Having true
friends is still one of the best relationships you can have. Friends are
different than your parents because there are just some things you do not do
with your parents. You can talk to your friend's differently, act differently,
and do activities that you do not do with your family.
If relationships never happened, you would
not be able to tell the real person you are. Relationships give you the chance
to interact with the people you are closest to. If relationships did not occur,
life would be boring. You would not be able to share your thoughts or gain a person’s
respect. If my relationships with my friends and family ended, I would have
nothing to look forward to when a day was bad, or if you just needed to have a
good time.
Relationships make people know who a person
really is. I love the relationship I have with my family and friends, and they
like having that same relationship with me.
The Importance of Relationships to Mental Health
I really believe
that your primary aim in life is to achieve your own happiness. If you do not
set your own happiness as the organizing principle for your decisions and your
behaviours, no one else will do it for you. No one cares about your happiness
as much as you do. People who feel that they will be unhappy in order to make
someone else happy are only fooling themselves. You can't give away something
that you don't have. You can't make someone else happy unless you are happy
yourself. If you really love and care for the people around you, you will
become a thoroughly happy individual. That is the best and kindest thing that
you can do for others.
True, genuine, deep-down happiness and inner peace is the hallmark of mental
health. To the degree to which you can achieve your own peace and happiness,
you are a truly healthy, fully-functioning, fully-integrated, self-actualizing
human being. If you can accomplish everything else in the world, but you cannot
achieve your own happiness, to that degree you are a failure.
And now we come to the central theme of this message. Fully 85% of your
happiness will be determined by your relationships with other people. It is how
well you get along with others, and how well they get along with you, that will
determine your level of happiness and satisfaction in life more than any other
single factor.
Relationships are not peripheral to a successful life. They are central. If you
accomplish all your material goals but you do not attend carefully to your
relationships, you will end up empty, alone and miserable. But if you have
wonderful relationships with people who care about you, and whom you care
about, then no matter what happens in the outside world, you will still be
happy.
You are a social being. You were born to be with other people. Your entire
identity, your self-image, your self-esteem, your self-respect, and everything
about you are determined by the reactions of other people to you from earliest
childhood. How you think and feel about yourself on an hour to hour, minute to
minute basis is largely determined by how other people respond to you as you
move through your personal life.
One of the smartest and most productive things that you can do is to become a
relationship expert. There is no set of skills that will do more to assure you
of great success, achievement and satisfaction in life than to be extremely
competent at getting along with other people.
True, genuine, deep-down happiness and inner peace is the hallmark of mental health. To the degree to which you can achieve your own peace and happiness, you are a truly healthy, fully-functioning, fully-integrated, self-actualizing human being. If you can accomplish everything else in the world, but you cannot achieve your own happiness, to that degree you are a failure.
And now we come to the central theme of this message. Fully 85% of your happiness will be determined by your relationships with other people. It is how well you get along with others, and how well they get along with you, that will determine your level of happiness and satisfaction in life more than any other single factor.
Relationships are not peripheral to a successful life. They are central. If you accomplish all your material goals but you do not attend carefully to your relationships, you will end up empty, alone and miserable. But if you have wonderful relationships with people who care about you, and whom you care about, then no matter what happens in the outside world, you will still be happy.
You are a social being. You were born to be with other people. Your entire identity, your self-image, your self-esteem, your self-respect, and everything about you are determined by the reactions of other people to you from earliest childhood. How you think and feel about yourself on an hour to hour, minute to minute basis is largely determined by how other people respond to you as you move through your personal life.
One of the smartest and most productive things that you can do is to become a relationship expert. There is no set of skills that will do more to assure you of great success, achievement and satisfaction in life than to be extremely competent at getting along with other people.
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