I want to be more of an intentional and genuine friend to people. I want to be a friend who calls people out for coffee to get to know them better. I want to learn to love people for who they are and not constantly be annoyed at everyone for their little flaws. I want to grow deeper in relationships with people here. Even though the closest people to me right now are my roommates, I still feel like they don't completely understand me. They'll listen and try to give me advice, but I can tell they just don't understand. I want to be able to give people a love that's selfless and to be selfless to others.
 Looking back at my year and a half here in Toronto, I've managed to make a lot of friends but all of those relationships are but at the surface. All the people in my pictures, I don't really know any of them. We hang out, but we don't have real conversations.
 If I could get to know one friend really well this year I think it would make staying here throughout the summer semester bearable. I read this quote from someone's blog but I can't remember whose it was. I copied it down and stuck it in my bible because I thought it was brilliant:

 "It's not about what I do, but why I do what I do. If I do it for me, then i gain nothing. If I do it for Him, then I gain everything. Love is not about me, love is about preferring others."