20200829, Article, Taichung

[Jasmine0316]

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Time：第 519 會，2020 年 8 月 29 日（週六）下午2:30~5:30
Place：
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?t=15

Agenda
14:30~15:30 Session One
15:30~15:50 Speech Session
15:50~16:00 Change Group and then Break Time
16:00~17:15 Session Two
17:15~17:30 Happy Time

Host: Vicki
Assistant Host:

Topic::
Why your ‘weak-tie’ friendships may mean more than you think
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20 ... -you-think

Please Note:
Venue:台中市南屯區 大業路182號 Mos Burger二樓
Thanks a lot for your attention.

Questions:

1. Do you agree what the author said, “Weak ties are more important to us than strong ones.”? What’s your opinion? People always say it’s hard to make friends after you start your working life. Do you think so? Why (not)?

2. Do you make friends easily? What’s your own definition of friend? What is the meaning of friendship? What type of friend are you?

3. How has your life changed under the coronavirus lockdown? Does it change any relationship or your work?

4. Technology has made it easier for people to make friends. Have you ever made friends on the Internet? Do you appreciate this type of friendship? If your former classmates or former friends find you and invite you to join their social media groups, will you join them?


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http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15
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http://www.happyforum.org/Association_Principle.htm
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http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewforum.php?f=33
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http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1766
週六晚餐(Saturday Dinner)
http://www.happyforum.org/happy/viewforum.php?f=76
戶外活動(Club Outing)

[Jasmine0316]

Dear Taichung Happiers,

Once upon a friend… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7PlUGbsXlQ

Friendship is one special privilege. The way we say something about friendship is always well-supplied with intonation and expression—like music. In 20 years, everything might be going to swallow and smash everything, but memories. So, close your eyes, please. And, tell us, what is the color of your friendship memories? Memories can resume so much energy. We remember, in childhood, we believed friends are soul mates and the relations will stay forever. That’s why we keep raising inquiring eyebrows toward the meaning of friendship. Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle (384–322 BC) illustrated the role friendship plays in our lives. “In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.” American essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) had friendship depicted in another picture. “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud…” Moreover, British writer C.S. Lewis argued that“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” Despite some friends just come and go in our lives, and can be forgotten as we live, every life is inextricably incorporated and interwoven with every other life--every influence, aware or unaware, impacts and re-impacts on every life. So, do you always attract friends who think like you? Healthy friendship is like the shoreline when the sun shows up after a storm. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to join us in creating the careless contentment that caresses our spirits.

Friendship is happiness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtiW2UDfD0 Friendship is like a painting, with a fantastic fusion of captivating colors. “Best friends: Ready to die for each other, but will fight to the death over the last slice of pizza.” Friendship is happiness. Since happiness has 1001 faces, friendship has its thousands. With pleasure, friendship removes the weight of the world and deepens positive emotions and energies--
the thrill is not alien to us at all. One of our chief enjoyments is to stir a burst of bliss for friends around us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcCCw4N1KWg On the other hand, our biggest stressor comes from the constant life lessons that call for our seriousness. We can’t smile from our hearts until we have friends, with whom we’ve been so close, with whom we can trust enough to play foolish--we can enjoy the fascinating freedom. It makes us feel like a rebirth. All we know is a curious, comforting contentment, while we see the qualities of thoughts, of optimism, of kindness, and of love in friends’ eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBiTPNxp3uM Every time when we laugh with friends, the air of anguish and anxiety evaporates; we can feel each other’s good-nature. When friendship does move in this way, it assumes a happy quality as the deep intention indicates to a bright mind, the inevitability of the generous growth. All of a sudden, the air cleans and cools into a complete surprise of clear-cut lines and energetic colors. The celebration of friendship is a channel, through which happiness flows. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs ... bjop.12181

Friendship is the sign of confidence and courage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoHdwUEfBts True love is hard to find; true friendship, harder. How to tell, then? Just play ugly or stupid, and see what happens? In true friendship, showing vulnerability is inevitable, invaluable, and not without self-compassion. Souls are complicated things; the confidence friends grant us convinces us--never be snobby. They say snobbery comes from lack of experience and lack of generosity. If we think we are higher than others, we are unconscious of their inner lives; if we think we are higher than others, it’s an unwelcome hint that we don’t have inner lives, either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqLY3Oes47U Mark Twain had provided his timeless advice, “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” Therefore, don’t deny the virtues, significance, and presence of others; otherwise, we reject the world and blind ourselves to it. Friends are for networking and collaboration, since everyone is small. https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-5-mo ... riendships All that friendship matters to us are people and the experience of connection. Connection—the invisible tie--that’s what everyone needs and wants. What makes the connection beautiful is the richness of our friends’ minds. Healthy friendship reinforces us to recover a line that leads to places where worlds communicate with each other, where no dark thing exists, where the pleasure is not always major, but it is quietly lasting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/remyblumen ... 0e84015537

Friendship is inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGsYjAcqOmU Listen. The subtle sound. The sound of a door opening. In the authentic friendship our attention is required far more by the details. Healthy friendship inspires us to draw back in distance or in time-- under certain circumstances—then the moment calms and the struggle settles; healthy friendship coaches us how to carry ourselves; healthy friendship directs our eyes to the qualities of cultivation, courage, compassion, and consideration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYxZoDptVjk What kind of friendship will fulfill your expectations? When the invisible burden we carry has misinterpreted our steps, based on a mutual appreciation of each other’s virtues, friends inspire our optimistic qualities and motivate us to strive for their best selves. We respect friends and care for them; every friend is a mirror, which facilitates our further understanding about ourselves. Healthy friendship requires time and thoughts to blossom—in the excitement of assurance, admiration, and apprehension. https://www.wfmt.com/2017/06/08/6-unfor ... iendships/ Furthermore, while nature, which is miraculously kind, never makes us small, the scale of things, the economy, the city, and the history make us small. We nod, either in dreams or in realty, toward the place where our inner lights are coming from. Being with friends, any circles never exclude us, which envelop us and protect us from the world. The depth of the beauty of friendship has been deepened since every moment we shared the texture and feeling of things. We can see a version of ourselves taking shape in friends’ eyes that we like better. There’s nothing we can do that drives friendship deeper than it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rxN840SqW4

“ON FRIENDSHIP” (BY HAGIT GROSSMAN AND RAM YUSIFOV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYyZtZyHGpo

Friendship is the music and the light. Friendship is the music and the light that change the direction of our lives. Friendship takes us to a play, where the light and music seem better than the world itself. Friendship makes us move together in a rhythm, which is so spirited that silences everything else. We want the music to be thorough, to surround us, to raise us up. Great virtues and presence disqualify each other’s thoughtless appreciation, and make friendship more alluring. The beauty of friendship is natural and nonstop. It grows in great abundance. Never judge friends narrowly, by standards rather than by the soul. Never underestimate the highest qualities of people. Have the courage to recognize and receive the real and delightful friendship. Because, in the end, it is the hidden power to heal people’s sufferings. Because, in the end, we are embraced by it, and live within it. The only thing that lasts, that makes friendship genuine and life rewarding, is the integrity that’s fixed in the heart. Don’t let anything turn us away from it. Friendship is the music and the light that change the direction of our lives. Integrity explains the depth of the music; sincerity makes our confidence in friendship limitless. Join us. Thanks!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvbwUU6lA5E






With Gratitude,
Jasmine