Friendship has no age

Do you think that friendship through the generation can exist? The range of age of my friends extend from 18-60. I mean friends with who I maintain contacts, I exchange my ideas, I ask for help and who I help. There are people from different countries, with different life stories and experiences. People who work as a waitresses, therapists, bankers, artists, full time mothers and wifes, lawyers, bank directors, musicians, free lancers, ecc... People who believe/not believe in god, who are wegetarians/love eating fiorentina, who watch stupid american comedies/psycholological thrillers, who are optimists/pesimists.....

Variety is a fortune.

Can this friendship without borders really exist?
Wouldn't you like to have wisdom of your old friend and vitality, energy of your teenager friend?
Wouldn't you like to be rich as a lawyer and have peace mind as your buddhist friend?
Wouldn't you like to know how to combine the role of mother and bussiness woman as your friend?

What make this kind of friendship stable in time, increasing and still existing?

EXCHANGE

COMPASSION

COMPREHENSION

Procrastination

Few days ago I read a polish post about procrastination. (http://blog.sukceskobiety.pl/).
I found it very interesting. So I present here some notes:
- Procrastination very often isn't an effect of laziness
- With regards to D. Waitley statements -by postponing some activities we protect our self-esteem and indipendency. We delay realization of some tasks not to suffer
- Procrastination can be some form of defence from suffering, but a short-term defence
- Do you procrastinate .....

• for fear of failure
• for fear of imperfection
• for fear of unrealistic expectations
• foe fear of success
  
• to present your aversion to power and authority
• and others...

And what do you do with this. Knowing reasons doesn't help us eliminate it.
When you delay to do something, you say "I will do it tomorrow" or "I will do it someday"?
, first emotion which appear is fear or anger?

How your procrastination looks like?

Confusion

The beginning of 2010 I would like to start by presenting two metaphors:

1. Our mind is like a water. If we don't stir it, if we dont' intervene, don't change it, water will be clean, clear, undisturbed. If we want to change the nature and consistency of water, it becomes more mudded and stirred.
Like our mind during the meditation. Please, leave it like it is, don't control and change it - and the mind will become clear and peaceful.

2. I know one of the chinese strategems: Muddle the water to bring up the fish. It's a confusion technique used in therapy. Sometimes we are so sure about what we want from life and sometimes not. To find a fish - that's mean a problem, we have to make even bigger confusion. Maybe we won't find any fish or maybe we will find fish we didn't expect.
So confusion can be healpful too. Don't you think?

Ad 1. It's visualition used very often by Sogyal Rinpoche. It's help calm me down. ;)
Ad.2. One of the many metaphors used in Brief Stragetic Therapy.