As we walk along our paths in life, we will encounter several forms of friendships. There will be friends of convenience, friends by association, and friends of heart. Friends out of convenience are friendships that you might have simply because you both are accessible to one another. These friendships are common in a work or school environment as people are united by place alone. You might even term these friendships as ‘associates’ instead of friends, because you associate with one another because you feel that you have to.

These types of friendships can easily disappear as quickly as they came or they can actually turn into more meaningful friendships as time moves on. Then there are friends by association, friendships that exist because of an association with another friend. You might acquire these forms of friendships because of your current friends. You acquire your friend’s circle of companions and make them your own. These associations can lack strong foundations and even knowledge of one another, but either way, you respect them as a part of friend that originated encounter.

Then there are friendships that are few and far between, friends of heart or friends of spirit. You may find this form of friendship with or in addition to your significant other. This type of friendship is guided through a profound spiritual connection. They are very pronounced and spiritually ignited. They can overcome distance. They can surpass cultural and language barriers. They can surpass age and even gender.

There is a time for silence and stillness that stumbles upon our awakened state of being. It is at this time we may lurk in background and move slowly with wind that carries us. It is through this stillness that we hear ourselves. It is through this silence that we are able to act on our own discretion and recline in our own comfort of both our physical and spiritual existence.

While we enjoy time of stillness and isolation, we must also know that we were intended to interact with others. No gift was meant to be silenced forever. No gift was intended to be hidden from world that it may benefit. If person holding gift decides to remain hidden then it is an act of selfishness for gift is not truly theirs alone, but universe’s that appointed them to have it.

What might prevent someone from choosing to share their gift with world could be a number of different conditions. One reason might be that it is uncomfortable for a lot of gifted and talented people to be in spotlight where focus is on them. What is amazing is some of most gifted people are also most hidden. Their gift may be an extremely extroverted talent, but on inside there is an introvert in hiding. There are many individuals with much wisdom to offer that remain on sidelines.

These individuals try to create a normal life for themselves where their talents might be easily overlooked or go unnoticed. In fact they may even be very successful at doing this however they will always have their gift and true nature seeded within.

These special people still benefit others from time to time with their gifts because it would be unnatural for them not to. Their focus however is limited to those who touch them in some way and actually bring their gifts to surface. Their passion to do what it is that they do may be silenced temporarily, but it will eventually scream to them on inside. That is when they know it is time to take action and it is time to do what they are called upon to do.