Thanks for visiting my diary. I've been journaling since 1984 and have chosen to share some of my entries online. They are not all positive thoughts, but I hope that reading them might be a blessing to someone who needs encouragement.

If you are just coming to my diary for the first time, please read my introductory entry, where I share some background that is important if you plan to follow this diary regularly.

Please also visit my music page, where you can hear samples from my debut CD, I Believe, which features songs written based on experiences shared in this journal.

SARAH'S SCRIBBLINGS

February 14, 1997
7:55 p.m.

ways I will respect friendships

Following are the ways I will respect my friendships. Boundaries are not things which I have seen expressed in any tangible form. I guess after I write this contract the next step I need to take is deciding exactly what to do with it, how to set these kinds of boundaries with new friends. I tend to make friends who have struggles with emotional stability, but I often do not realize that some of the new people I meet in the context of every-day life have these struggles. I don't actively seek them out. I do make a lot of friends in emotional support and/or disability- specific environments, and those friendships are important to me. I try to make other friends as well, but it seems that generally the people who are attracted to me as friends are people who are struggling. I'm not sure if this falls under birds of a feather flock together and if it does, I'm not sure how to change that. I guess to some extent I see myself as one of those people who bring others down even though that is not intentional.