{"id":6963,"date":"2016-06-26T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2016-06-23T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T03:15:32","slug":"its-all-about-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/its-all-about-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s all about relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dear friend of mine received an award this last week and I was able to be there to congratulate him at the event. I knew I was going to have to slip out early and that\u00a0I might miss his acceptance speech so I asked him to quickly share it with me before we went in to the luncheon.<\/p>\n

To give some background, this friend had a massive heart attack not too long ago and it was literally a miracle he survived. Thank heavens he has\u00a0recovered! His experience\u00a0has given him a new appreciation\u00a0for\u00a0what matters most in life. He shared with me that his experience helped remind him\u00a0that life is really all about our relationships\u2026and that those relationships are\u00a0what truly\u00a0matters –\u00a0Life is about the friendships we form and the bonds\u00a0that\u00a0we share with one another. He pointed out that life isn\u2019t at all about the material things we accumulate or the trophies we receive because none of those can go with us when we die. But the relationships we form and the love we all share…well that will never die\u2026it will go on with us forever.<\/p>\n

What a great reminder of the perspective we should all have in our lives. We get too caught up worrying about the \u201cstuff\u201d and we lose sight of just how important our relationships really are. It is those relationships we will care about most when our time on this earth is coming to an end. I would bet not one of us will be on our deathbeds asking for our stuff\u00a0that we own to surround us as we are passing away\u2026no\u2026.we will be asking for the people we love to be by our side as we go…because that is what truly matters.<\/p>\n

Hopefully we won\u2019t be on our deathbeds before we start giving our relationships with others the attention they deserve. It should be our top priority now, today, at this very minute.<\/p>\n

So, Go kiss your sweetheart. Go hug your family. Go play with your children. Go talk with a friend. Go pray with God.<\/p>\n

Have a phenomenal day everyone!\u00a0 And congratulations t0 my dear friend Fraser Bullock on an award well deserved!<\/p>\n

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~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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