Of Service

Are you feeling frustration with a friend or partner?  Why is that?  It is because you perceive something relative to your own thoughts or actions which are different and you judge them as lesser or wrong.  And what happens next?  You perceive a better way and you entertain thoughts of how you could or should change the other.  For some reason—and there may be many—your friend does not change.  The reasons why matter not.  What matters is that you, my friend, experience frustration rather than peace.  Is it your place to change or in some perceived way improve them? 

If you are less than peaceful over your friend’s situation, then the place to focus your attention is on yourself.  Even if your friend has asked for help or asked to be changed, if you are feeling frustration, your friend is still in your life for a reason:  to teach you.  Peace and unconditional love.  These are the qualities of higher consciousness.  If you are not experiencing these, then focus not on changing your friend, but on changing yourself.  You can stay with your friend or walk away.  Whichever you choose, if you do so with peace and with unconditional love, then the relationship has been of service.