If you have been with someone in periods of your unconsciousness, then don’t just drop them as you grow more conscious. If you were them in the periods of your inner darkness, try to share the light with them if and when you receive it. You have to ask yourself, “Have I tried hard enough to somehow save the relationship? Have I given the relationship its due?”
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Questioner: As we grow up, our way of thinking does not align with our friends. We will have contradictions at many points. We start to hate them, but the way we stick with us at that time, if you want to break the relationship, if you want to break the friendship, how do you do that?
Acharya Prashant: So, you have friends, and, then as you move along and spend an year or two, you find that your thoughts don’t align? And those differences make you hateful, you said? And then?
Questioner: But the way we stick with us. We stick with us. They may be friends with us, but they do not want to be as their friends.
Acharya Prashant: Okay? So, you do not want to be with them anymore, but those friends are still sticking to you. Well, that’s very nice of them actually. You see, if you may call them rules, there are certain rules in life. If you have been with someone in periods of your unconsciousness, then don’t just drop them as you grow more conscious. If you have been with people in your childhood, if you have played with them, you have been friends with them, even if in the way of a little child, you have related to them as kids do. Seeing kids relate to each other, there’s not much wisdom in that. We cannot say the kids are relating very consciously to each other. And the kids will grow up.
