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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ∼Alice Walker

Friendship has an uncanny way of reflecting back to us who and what we really are. Our friends become a window into our character by which we can see ourselves through the eyes of others. Hopefully, we surround ourselves with those who reflect love, compassion, and honesty. When we don’t, we have to take stock of who we allow into our lives. This may include letting go of people who were important to us at one time. Do our friends challenge our image of ourselves? Do they make us take an honest look at who we are and how we are growing? Does their character reflect the character we want to see in ourselves? Or do they let us get complacent in our recovery by remaining silent? We need to hear our friends when they lovingly tell us we are straying off the path. They also need to hear us when we do the same.

I honor myself and my friends when I allow

myself to see myself through their eyes.

I “listen” to their reflection of me.

But he {my friend} said something to me that really caused me to hit my emotional bottom that night. "You know something?" he told me. "You think you're better than everybody else."

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 290