bittersweet

I have just landed in London for my short layover here, and I am experiencing the time warp that international travel is. While on the flight to get here, when I was not watching movies since I could not sleep, I was reading this book called Bittersweet. I have loved the way Shauna Niequist writes as she gives meaning to our own mundane and profound stories. 

The following chapter is about friendship, and I cannot deny that I was certainly teary as I read this on the plane and as I was thinking of you all. 

Here are several of the lines that jumped out at me: 

"That when you allow someone past all the doors you were taught to keep closed, what you find behind those doors is a kind of friendship I didn't even have a category for." 

"And every time I told (her) the truth, or asked for something difficult, or opened a scary conversation, when I thought she would back away, she walked forward. And by walking forward, she changed me...." 

I am getting called to board now so I will write more later from India! :)