Its sort of a strange way to look at it, but I find this to be very true with the projects I work on.  Sometimes when your really into your writing, you find yourself spending all your time with it.  You know everything about it, and you know exactly how things are going to progress, and you just feel so at peace with how things are flowing.  Those are the moments we struggle for, such as in life, or in this case – friendships.

A friendship – like a writing project – needs to be worked at, each of you needs to put in the time and effort to make the relationship work.  If no one is putting anything into it – its likely not a good friendship, or one that you don’t care much about.

Sometimes when things aren’t awesome with what I’m working on, I spend a lot of time grumbling to myself and stomping around the house to help me think.  I make tea and pour over the problem, trying to see it from another perspective, or changing my approach to it.

Tell me you’ve never had to do this when your fighting with a friend your having problems seeing eye to eye with.  Neither one of you will budge for whatever reason, but you know that if you could just both explain yourselves better you might still disagree, but be able to see past the problem your having and move on.

I’m sure I’ll think of more, but that’s all I have for right now.