One of the joys of my move to Columbus for a new job has been an unexpected friendship with a young family who I met through my church. The friendship started when they invited my husband and me to the zoo with their two young children.
We loved being with them and their children and that trip blossomed into a deep friendship with many shared meals and outings. They both just graduated, and their beautiful family is leaving to go back home to Idaho. We will miss them so much.
It would have been so easy for any one of us to not take the energy or time to connect. We all have very busy lives and we all knew that they were leaving at the end of the school year. But the friendship enriched all of our lives and I am so grateful that our paths crossed and we took the opportunity to deeply connect.
My experience is that these deep connections are rare and wonderful and don’t happen very often because they require openness, authenticity and time.
We all crave deep connections. How do you invite them into your life? How do you create them at work?