Just as we use salt on daily foods, we experience
salt in daily relationships.
Do you have a friend who never shows? He or she may call and provide you with a certain lift, even suggest a get-together with that emphasis of energy and enthusiasm in their voice which tells you you are important and they want to see you.
Except, when the time comes the phone rings with a ring-off from them. Or, the time comes and no phone rings until the hour is so late you know nothing will happen.
Naturally you are disappointed. In the case of friends however you may accept this with, as the saying goes, a grain of salt.
In romance relationships, part of the task in the initial stages is to test each other in terms of dependability and reliability.This is how to determine if your prospective mate is indeed suitable to help you through life challenges, by standing firmly at your side. With friends, the stakes are not quite so high.
So you experience this disappointment once, twice, even three times. Soon you get the pattern. This person simply will not follow through.
Rather than continue to be disappointed by their behavior, allow yourself to recognize this is who your friend is. You do not ask salt to be sweet.
Do not ask an unreliable friend to live up to commitments. Instead, accept the taste of this friend's presence in your life for what it is:
a taste of the salty side of life.
That way, you can avoid any extreme disappointment
and at the same time enjoy what the person does have to offer. Even if it is just a small amount of friendship, often just the tiniest bit of salt improves the overall taste.