The more I do what I do, the more I begin to realize the difference between someone I  may like and someone I want to be around.

I may like you if you can talk about sports and music and how your day is going.  But I want to be around you if you can tell me the way something should be in real life.  I may listen to you if you come to me and complain or you’re having a rough day and need to get it out, but I’ll want to stay there and keep listening if you then go into how things can and will be better eventually.

When someone paints a picture of how things could be and should be in the world, people follow.  I follow.

So today if you talk to your friends and share how things are going and maybe you get the urge to complain a bit about all the bad things going on, follow it up with how things will eventually turn around, and maybe even share with them a vivid picture of what that looks like.

If we were only as descriptive about the good things that are happening as we are about the bad things…