Friendship - Zodiac Friends : Gemini

The social butterfly of the Zodiac has lots of friends. In fact, the Twins should have twice as many as any other Sign. One side of a Gemini will want to go hang-gliding and run around outside, while the other is keen on sitting cozily at home and playing a board game. Their friends need to be as diverse as they are in order to keep up, or they just need to know when to let Gemini go free. The Twins can bond well with lots of different kinds of groups. If they get bored with one set of people, they always have a few more groups that will be more interesting -- for awhile. Gemini is a sociable creature who enjoys having friends. If you can match their pace and mercurial temperament, you and your friend will have a blast. The best way to develop a bond with a Gemini is to make an intellectual connection. Interested in exploring anything at all? Take along your Gemini pal and enjoy the new perspective they give to even the most ordinary situations. If you can match wits with this one, they'll respect your intellect and work to develop this worthwhile friendship.

Friendship Gifts

Friendship is a comforting hug, shared laughter or simply being there at the right time – small things that go a long way in building up a relationship, particularly with friends. Very often, maybe just out of habit, we tend to take our friendships for granted. Like I said, it is not always intentional but more due to the fact that we always see them around when we need them. This is specially true in cases of childhood friendships. It's more like... 'they are just a call away'!I often feel that we would do a lot better if we simply grow up with our friends with our eyes and ears than with the mouth – what I mean is, talking is always not a necessity. Sometimes little tokens of appreciation also make a good impact. Like the other day, I was going through few of my old treasures – friendship gifts that I have received over the years. A lot of memories are associated with each of them and they all are unique and wonderful in their own ways. They each are their own 'time capsules'. And a great way to shop for friends is on the Internet at your own leisure where you can think about what will suit best. Here's a couple of unique gift ideas that I found...
'Never Far Away' Bracelet – What are friendships without friendship bracelets! They're fun and very symbolic – and the best are not just the cloth ones but made of Sterling Silver – something your children can enjoy too (ok did I just say that? lol) You can inscribe words on them and they'll never fade!
A True Friend Sign – Something that a friend might need as a house warming gift or something to remember you by. It's a plaque with your favorite friendship quote. You can get it pretty easily and if you can't find one you can always have it custom made.
Poem About Best Friends – Another stuff you can hang on the wall is a poem about best friends, better yet, write the poem yourself, decorate it and frame it. -- Voilà you got a gift!
Friendship Definition Glass Block – If plaques are meant for walls then, this one can be on a desk of a dorm room or an office. They're poems or statements that you can put on a glass block. They can be very elegant and can add to the décor of the room.
Friends personalized Cartoon – Do you ever got to fairs with your friends? You can take sketches or caricatures of yourselves and forever you can keep that memory.

Remember Your First Kiss

Do you remember your first kiss? Of course you do! Don't lie. I had mine in Junior High -- you know in 8th Grade when you're in 'senior year' and you're supposed to have a 'boyfriend'? Well those were fun days. Where I Had My First Kiss is a site I found where they're mapping first kisses around the world. It's kinda like a neat message boards with all the accounts of first kisses. It's Pretty neat idea.

Delirious Friends of the Celebrity World

If you haven't seen Delirious starring Steve Buscemi you should definitely watch. It's directed by Tom DiCillo the director of Living in Oblivion (also starring Steve Buscemi). I think Tom DiCillo is just continuing to explore the 'celebrity culture' theme. He does it beautifully in Delirious -- depicting the fact that everyone is connected to the food chain. One thing I liked about the movie is the underlying theme of friendship -- weird and quirky. People bond almost in an instant and loose friends just as easily. In the nether world of celebrities the right time in the right place counts just like Toby (played by Michael Pitt) learns. One wrong move and you're gone. Such is the ups and downs of celebrity friendships portrayed in a satirical movie.

Friendships of a Genius

Did you know that today is Einstein's birthday? If he lived he would be 128 years old. He was a genius. Period – there's nothing else that is needed to be said about him. He contributed a lot of stuff to theoretical physics and helped the field grow and today because of him we understand our universe better than we did before. But that is all beside the point.
Take a moment and think about it. If you look at Einstein's life, it's filled with catalyst friends that move him forward to the next level. When Albert Einstein was about ten a family friend, Max Talmud introduced him to key science and philosophy texts from authors like Kant and Euclid. Soon Einstein was doing calculus! Einstein's biggest support was a friend Mileva Marić (the only woman studying mathematics at the institute Einstein was in – ETH) and later they became romantic partners.

It was also another friend Michele Besso introduced him to the works of Ernst Mach – which allowed him to publish a paper in Annalen der Physik entitled "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Consequences of the observations of capillarity phenomena"), on the capillary forces of a straw. In this paper his quest for a unified physical law becomes apparent, which he followed throughout his life. As a cause of this slowly the academic community considered him as "the best sounding board in Europe" for physical ideas.
The bottom line is, he wouldn't have made it without his friends. He wouldn't be known as Einstein the genius today. What about you? Your friends? Who pushes you the most? Who's there for you? Why don't you take a pause and appreciate those friendships? Here's a couple of ecards to help you along --

Friendships – Running Away and Ditching them!

Get rid of friendships?!!! I couldn't believe it, and neither will you guys. Just after writing about how to maintain friendships in my last post, I saw this cool article in The Guardian. It gives us to think about – a departure from what we try to do in our lives -- maintain friends!Friendships, according to the results of the survey found that friendships among those below 30 survive to about five years or less. Now that's some food for thought! Tim Dowling gives us an idea of when certain friendships have just gotta go! He wrote everything friendship possible from cell mates to vicars and people you meet on the street.

Getting together with friends

We're so busy these days that sometimes we forget to take time off for our friends. And sometimes our friendships just dwindle and die. We move apart. We get to college, we're busy with our careers, we get married, have kids and friends just go away further. Some times we're so lost it's like the lyrics from the song of The Fray “Where did I go wrong?”

Don't let your friendship dwindle away just get together, just say hi, just get together – here's a couple of ecards that you can use just to email your friends to start the conversation flowing again...