ln ancient time, it was considered the greatest consolation in life for a person-who fostered high aspiration and preserved noble mind-to share his innermost confidences with his close friend. For, in most cases, one was quite displeased to have got no close friend at all even at his last gasp.
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| The Importance of Friendship. |
Opportunity to make acquaintance is quite rare under the sun. How much more limited it is to reach understanding and sympathy! Some acquaintances come from affection. Affection without understanding results in mistaken relation. Realizing it, partners become strangers. Some acquaintances come from conflict, which results from misunderstanding. Realizing it, foes turn out to be hand-in-hand friends, too attached to be divided!
Some meet in person, others just in mind: a line of writing, a piece of music, an expression of opinions or a flash of ideas is enough to warm up and strengthen their relationship which is recognized not in sight but just in mind.
Not very far away but on the same stairs, or in the same trip, in the same party room or in a slight conflict, lingers happiness. The opportunity to meet is, however, usually missed just owing to inconvenience to advance or hesitation in weighing, and especially owing to the lack of frankness and sincerity.
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