Relationship Reflection

A relationship is a relation between people. Each of us has a variety of relationships with other people in our lives. Each of us has casual acquaintances. People we know a little bit about, but not too much. With socal networks like Facebook growing, people have more and more of these casual acquaintances. Then we have friends, people we communicate regularly with. All of us have friends at work, in our neighborhoods, at our schools or in our church. We have less friends than casual acquaintances. Then we have close friends, people that we share with on a deeper level what’s going on in our lives. Most people don’t have a lot of close friends, but our close friends are important to us. Some are closer than others. Then we have business partners, people that we are in business with.

Research shows that people who have a strong social network tend to live longer, the heart and blood pressure of people with healthy relationships respond better to stress, strong social networks are associated with a healthier endocrine system and healthier cardiovascular functioning, and healthy social networks enhance the immune system's ability to fight off infectious diseases.

The relationship can be a business relationship and a casual relationship. In the pictures above, I showed different examples of the relationships that I have with them. These are pictures of my family. We all have positive and strong relationships/partnerships. All of these people help contribute to my succes. They all are positive and I feel that is one great factor that they all have. I always associate myself around positive people because it affects me in a positive or negative way.  Relationships can have a great impact on your life so we should always have healthy relationships.