Enjoying Each Other's Company
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Photo by: David Shankbo
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It was announced this week that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have agreed to host the Golden Globe Awards television broadcast for the next two years. Now, admittedly, that's not the biggest news of the week. The federal government reboot and debt ceiling Band-Aid took that title.
But the news about Tina and Amy does relate. Here's how.
Healthy people have healthy relationships. That covers physical, emotional, and mental health, by the way. Tina and Amy, from their earliest days learning improvisational comedy, through their years together on Saturday Night Live, and on to their careers in series television and movies, simply enjoy each other's company. They're friends and confidants to each other. They have a strong, healthy, fun relationship - and it shows. We enjoy watching them have a good time together.
And the outgrowth of that relationship dynamic has turned into lucrative careers for the two comediennes. Good for them.
The denizens of D.C. could take a lesson from Tina and Amy. The recent stalemate over debt and default, healthcare and closed national monuments, has brought the lack of healthy relationships into sharper focus than ever among our political leadership.
NBC host Chris Matthews, in fact, has written a book, "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked," remembering how President Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill (for whom Matthews worked as a staff member) were able to disagree and fight tooth-and-nail over policy - yet ultimately come to resolution and compromise for the good of the country.
This happened because the two seasoned politicians knew the value of and maintained a personal relationship, and refused to be enslaved by a daily diet of continuous confrontation, accusation, and stalemate.
From the glamor of Hollywood, to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and across kitchen tables from sea to shining sea, it all comes down to relationships. When they are healthy, so are we.
Be Well,
~Eric
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