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Aristotle - Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the daily quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm our host Andrew McGivern for December 28th.
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  Today is national call a friend day, a reminder to pick up the
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  phone and reconnect in our text first world actual phone calls
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  have become rare. We emoji react, we voice note,
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  we message. But call.
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  That feels almost formal. Now.
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  National Call of Friend Day pushes back on that trend,
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  encouraging us to have real conversations with real voices.
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  There's something irreplaceable about hearing someone's voice.
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  The warmth, the laughter, the pauses.
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  Text can't capture that. A phone call creates presence in
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  a way digital communication can't match.
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  And that brings us to today's quote from Aristotle.
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  Aristotle understood the depth of true friendship when he wrote
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  Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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  Aristotle's definition is beautiful and true.
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  Real friendship isn't just about proximity or shared interests.
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  It's a deeper connection. Two people who understand each
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  other so completely they become extensions of one another.
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  You know this friend, the one who finishes your sentences, who
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  knows what you're thinking before you say it?
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  Who gets the joke before you tell it?
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  That's not coincidence. That's Aristotle's single soul
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  dwelling and two bodies. But that connection needs
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  maintenance. Souls dwelling together require
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  communication. And sometimes that text isn't
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  enough. You need to hear their voice.
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  You need that back and forth of conversation.
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  You need the realness of a phone.
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  Call. National Call a Friend Day
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  reminds us these connections are precious.
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  Don't let them atrophy through neglect.
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  Pick up the phone today. Call a friend, not text.
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  Call. Pick someone you haven't talked
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  to in too long, someone you keep meaning to reach out to, someone
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  who makes you laugh, who gets you, who knows your soul.
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  Don't overthink it. Don't wait for the perfect time
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  or the perfect reason. Just call and say I was thinking
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  about you. That's enough.
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  Because Aristotle was right. True friendship is 2 souls
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  connected, but souls need voices to keep that connection alive.
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  So dial, talk, laugh, remember what it feels like to hear your
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  friend's voice and think, yes, there's the other half of my
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  soul that's worth the phone call.
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  That's going to do it. For today, I'm Andrew McGivern
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  signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.