Circle of Trust

Picked Jacob’ ladder as an exercise today as my friends back home know me as Jacob/Jake or a different nickname that I won’t share. I was just back last weekend and got to see a lot of them. We partied hard for two days. On the 3rd day I felt like shit. That’s not really who I am anymore. On my long drive back home I couldn’t help but think back to when I moved here. It was hard to leave my friends.  But I needed to change and grow a lot. And reflecting on it, I always thought that it was a blessing in disguise. I didn’t have my friends around so couldn’t go out for happy hour or things on the weekend. I was a newer dad and was at home most of the time helping raise my kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love my friends back home. But sometimes when I’m there I get back into old Jacob mode. Which can be fun but not really who I am anymore or want to be. A song I know has a line that strikes me:

I want to have friends, that I can trust, that love me for the man I’ve become, not the man that I was

So surround yourselves with people and friends that love it when you change and grow. And be that friend to someone as well!